Catholic Public Domain Version
"Only the blood you shall not eat. Instead, you shall pour it upon the ground like water. "
— Deuteronomy 12:16, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.”
“Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. ”
“Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.”
“However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.”
“Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.”
“But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.”
“Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.”
Take care that you do not offer your holocausts in any place that you see.
Instead, you shall offer sacrifices in the place which the Lord will choose within one of your tribes, and you shall do whatsoever I instruct you.
So, if you wish to eat, and if the eating of flesh pleases you, then kill and eat according to the blessing of the Lord your God, which he has given to you, in your cities: you may eat it whether it is unclean, that is, having blemish or defect, or whether it is clean, that is, whole and without blemish, of the kind which is permitted to be offered, such as the roe deer and the stag.
Only the blood you shall not eat. Instead, you shall pour it upon the ground like water.
You may not eat in your towns the tithes of your crops, and your wine and oil, the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, nor anything which you will vow, or which you will offer spontaneously, nor the first-fruits of your hands.
But you shall eat these before the Lord your God, in the place which the Lord your God will choose: you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man servant and woman servant, and the Levite who dwells in your cities. And you shall rejoice and be refreshed in the sight of the Lord your God by all the things to which you will extend your hand.
Be careful, lest you abandon the Levite, at any time while you are living in the land.