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Deuteronomy 12

Deut. 12:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Only ye shall not eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
the blood
dam (Hebrew #1818)
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
KJV usage: blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), + innocent.
Pronounce: dawm
Origin: from 1826 (compare 119)
f; ye shall pour
shaphak (Hebrew #8210)
to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc.); intensively, to sprawl out
KJV usage: cast (up), gush out, pour (out), shed(-der, out), slip.
Pronounce: shaw-fak'
Origin: a primitive root
it upon the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
as water
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
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Gen. 9:4• 4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. (Gen. 9:4)
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Lev. 7:26• 26Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. (Lev. 7:26)

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Cross References

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Deut. 12:23‑24• 23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
 24Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water. (Deut. 12:23‑24)
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Deut. 15:23• 23Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water. (Deut. 15:23)
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Gen. 9:4• 4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. (Gen. 9:4)
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Lev. 7:26‑27• 26Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
 27Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people. (Lev. 7:26‑27)
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Lev. 17:10‑13• 10And 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.
 11For 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.
 12Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
 13And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. (Lev. 17:10‑13)
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Acts 15:29• 29That 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. (Acts 15:29)
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1 Tim. 4:4• 4For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: (1 Tim. 4:4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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