King James Version
Deuteronomy 15:23 in the King James Version says “Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.”
Deuteronomy 15:23 · KJV
And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
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properly, leanness, i.e., (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the blood”
H1818blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“thereof thou shalt pour”
H8210to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e., to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc
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