Deuteronomy 12:23

23 Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.

Deuteronomy 12:23 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 12:23

Only be sure that thou eat not the blood
This is repeated again, that they might be careful to observe the law concerning that:

for the blood is the life:
which is the reason given for the prohibition of it, (See Gill on Leviticus 17:11),

and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh:
by which it seems that the meaning of the law was, that the blood might not be eaten in or with the flesh, but to be let out of it, or the fish not to be eaten raw, but dressed; for there were various laws about eating of blood, which are differently expressed.

Deuteronomy 12:23 In-Context

21 If the place that Yahweh your God will choose to put his name there is [too] far from you, and you slaughter any of your herd and any of your flock that Yahweh has given to you [just] as I have commanded you, then you may eat whenever you desire in your {towns}.

22 Surely [just] as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so [both] the unclean and the clean together may eat it.

23 Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.

24 You shall not eat it, [but] on the ground you shall pour it out like water.

25 You shall not eat it, so that {it will go well} for you [and] your children after you, because [then] you will [be] doing what is right in the eyes of Yahweh.