Deuteronomy 12:24
in Deuteronomy 12You must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
KJV
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 12
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them, &c.--Game when procured in the wilderness had not been required to be brought to the door of the tabernacle.
This site's exposition
Only be sure not to eat the blood
on Deuteronomy 12:23-25
The blood rule returns with its reason, “because the blood is the life”, the ground Leviticus 17:11 gives for blood on the altar making atonement. Genesis 9:4 laid the same restriction on Noah, so it began before Sinai.
This site's exposition
pour it on the ground
The command not to eat the blood stands at verses 16, 23, 24 and 25. Henry reports Bishop Patrick's reason: the idolaters ate the blood of their sacrifices to gain communion with their demons. Israel pours it on the ground like water.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Thou shalt not eat it,.... Neither with the flesh, nor separately: thou shall pour it upon the earth as water; as the blood of sacrifices was poured upon the altar, the blood of common flesh was to be poured upon the earth, signifying it was not to be used, and no account to be made of it; See Gill on Deu 12:16.
To prevent a revolt to false gods, we are forbidden to worship the true God in such a way and manner as the false gods were worshipped in, and are commanded to observe the instituted ordinances of worship that we may adhere to the proper object of worship. For this reason Moses is very large in his exposition of the second commandment.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לֹ֖א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תֹּאכְלֶ֑נּוּ | tokhelenu | you must eat it | H398 → | 810 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הָאָ֥רֶץ | haaretz | the ground | H776 → | 2504 times |
| תִּשְׁפְּכֶ֖נּוּ | tishpekhenu | you will pour out it | H8210 → | 114 times |
| כַּמָּֽיִם׃ | kamayim | like <the> water | H4325 → | 581 times |
לֹ֖אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תֹּאכְלֶ֑נּוּyou must eat it
tokhelenuH398 →810 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
הָאָ֥רֶץthe ground
haaretzH776 →2504 times
תִּשְׁפְּכֶ֖נּוּyou will pour out it
tishpekhenuH8210 →114 times
כַּמָּֽיִם׃like <the> water
kamayimH4325 →581 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Deuteronomy 12:16but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
it leads to
- Genesis 9:4
But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
- Deuteronomy 15:23
But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- Acts 15:29
You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
- Deuteronomy 12:23–24
Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
- Genesis 9:4
Through
Deuteronomy 15:23But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 12:16
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
- Leviticus 7:26
You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.
- Ezekiel 33:25
Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the…
- Deuteronomy 12:16
Where this verse is studied
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.