Deuteronomy 12:24

24 Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like 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 It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.

23 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.

24 Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

26 But the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to take to the place which will be marked out by the Lord: