Parallel Verses
Webster
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.
New American Standard Bible
Only be sure
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
But don’t eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
International Standard Version
Only be sure to refrain from eating blood, because blood is the source of life and you must not consume blood with the meat.
A Conservative Version
Only be sure that thou not eat the blood. For the blood is the life, and thou shall not eat the life with the flesh.
American Standard Version
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.
Amplified
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life (soul), and you shall not eat the life with the meat.
Bible in Basic English
But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.
Darby Translation
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;
Julia Smith Translation
Only be striving not to eat the blood, for the blood it is the soul; and thou. shalt not eat the soul with the flesh.
King James 2000
Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.
Modern King James verseion
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood. For the blood is the life. And you may not eat the life with the flesh.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But be strong that thou eat not the blood. For the blood, that is the life: and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh:
NET Bible
However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself -- you must not eat the life with the meat!
New Heart English Bible
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
The Emphasized Bible
Howbeit firmly refrain from eating the blood; for the blood, is the life, - therefore must thou not eat the life with the flesh.
World English Bible
Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Youngs Literal Translation
Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh;
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 12:23
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Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. 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. 24 Thou shalt not eat it: thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
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Cross References
Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Genesis 9:4
But flesh with the life of it, which is its blood, shall ye not eat.
Leviticus 17:13-14
And whatever man there may be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, who hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.
Leviticus 3:16-17
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savor: all the fat is the LORD'S.
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Revelation 5:9
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals of it: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and language, and people, and nation;