Deuteronomy 12:24

24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 12:24 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 12:24

Thou shalt not eat it
Neither with the flesh, nor separately:

thou shall pour it upon the earth as water;
as the blood of sacrifices was poured upon the altar, the blood of common flesh was to be poured upon the earth, signifying it was not to be used, and no account to be made of it; (See Gill on Deuteronomy 12:16)

Deuteronomy 12:24 In-Context

22 Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.

23 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.

24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

25 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.

26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which Jehovah shall choose: