Catholic Public Domain Version
"Only beware of this: you may not eat the blood. For their blood is for the soul. And because of this, you must not eat the soul with the flesh. "
— Deuteronomy 12:23, Catholic Public Domain 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 thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt 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 the Lord your God will have enlarged your borders, just as he has spoken to you, and when you would eat the flesh that your soul desires,
but if the place which the Lord your God will choose, so that his name may be there, is far away, you may kill, from your herds and your flocks which you will have, in the manner I have instructed to you, and you may eat in your towns, as it pleases you.
Just as the roe deer and the stag may be eaten, so also may you eat these: you may eat both the clean and the unclean alike.
Only beware of this: you may not eat the blood. For their blood is for the soul. And because of this, you must not eat the soul with the flesh.
Instead, you shall pour it upon the ground like water,
so that it may be well with you, and with your sons after you, when you will do what is pleasing in the sight of the Lord.
But the things that you have sanctified and vowed to the Lord, you shall take up and bring to the place which the Lord will choose.