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Deuteronomy 12:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water. "

Deuteronomy 12:16

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14 but in the place which the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

15 Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the LORD your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

16 Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;

18 but you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hand to.

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Deuteronomy 15:23

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"Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water."

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Leviticus 7:26

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"You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings."

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Leviticus 10:18

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"Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.”"

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Genesis 9:4

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"But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat."

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Deuteronomy 21:9

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"So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in the LORD’s eyes."

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Exodus 30:32

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"It shall not be poured on man’s flesh, and do not make any like it, according to its composition. It is holy. It shall be holy to you."

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Deuteronomy 12:1

"These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth."

Deuteronomy 12:2

"You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree."

Deuteronomy 12:3

"You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place."

Deuteronomy 12:4

"You shall not do so to the LORD your God."

Deuteronomy 12:5

"But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there."

Deuteronomy 12:6

"You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there."

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