OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 23

Deuteronomy 12:23

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Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.

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Deuteronomy 12:20–26

20

When the LORD your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

21

If the place which the LORD your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.

22

Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.

23
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Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.

24

You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

25

You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in the LORD’s eyes.

26

Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD shall choose.

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