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. "
— Deuteronomy 12:23, American Standard 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.”
“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.”
“However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!”
“Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood is for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the flesh:”
“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.”
“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.”
When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul.
If the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which Jehovah hath given thee, as I have commanded thee; and thou mayest eat within thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul.
Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.
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.
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.
Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which Jehovah shall choose;