Deuteronomy 12:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 12

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

¹⁶Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 12:16 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Deuteronomy 12:15 Deuteronomy 12:17 →

Original word meaning

— of 5

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 9:4
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
Acts 15:29
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Deuteronomy 12:23-24
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. …
Leviticus 17:10-13
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. …

Topics

Altar Atonement Blood Hygiene Purification Sanitation Scab Sprinkling

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-32)

There is not any one particular precept (as I remember) in all the law of Moses so largely pressed and inculcated as this, by which they are all tied to bring their sacrifices to that one altar which was set up in the court of the tabernacle, and there to perform all the rituals of their religion; for, as to moral services, then, no doubt, as now, men might pray every where, as they did in their s…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water--The prohibition against eating or drinking blood as an unnatural custom accompanied the announcement of the divine grant of animal flesh for food (Ge 9:4), and the prohibition was repeatedly renewed by Moses with reference to the great objects of the law (Le 17:12), the prevention of idolatry, and the consecration of the sac…