Deuteronomy 12:23

23 but be sure you don't eat the blood, because the life is in the blood. Don't 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 Lord your God chooses a place where he is to be worshiped that is too far away from you, you may kill animals from your herds and flocks, which the Lord has given to you. I have commanded that you may do this. You may eat as much of them as you want in your own towns,

22 as you would eat gazelle or deer meat. Both clean and unclean people may eat this meat,

23 but be sure you don't eat the blood, because the life is in the blood. Don't eat the life with the meat.

24 Don't eat the blood, but pour it out on the ground like water.

25 If you don't eat it, things will go well for you and your children, because you will be doing what the Lord says is right.