Deuteronomy 15:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

Deuteronomy 15:23 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Leviticus 7:26
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Deuteronomy 12:23
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.
Ezekiel 33:25
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
1 Samuel 14:32
And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.

Topics

Altar Animals Atonement Birthright Blood Consecrated Things Firstborn Firstling

Commentary

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

(vv. 19-29)

Here is, 1. A repetition of the law concerning the firstlings of their cattle, that, if they were males, they were to be sanctified to the Lord (Deut. 15:19), in remembrance of, and in thankfulness for, the sparing of the first-born of Israel, when the first-born of the Egyptians, both of man and beast, were slain by the destroying angel (Exod. 13:2, 15); on the eighth day it was to be given to Go…