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1 Samuel 14:32

Sin

30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?

31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.

And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.

33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.

34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.

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BSB
So they rushed greedily to the plunder, taking sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them on the ground and ate meat with the blood still in it.
KJV
And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
WEB
and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.
ASV
and the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people did eat them with the blood.
DARBY
And the people fell on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate [them] with the blood.
BLB
And the people rushed upon the plunder, and they took sheep and oxen and sons of the herd, and slaughtered [them] on the ground; and the people ate [them] with the blood.
ÅB
og tok straks fatt på hærfanget; de tok småfe og storfe og kalver og slaktet dem på marken og spiste kjøttet med blodet i.
OTB
Folket kastet seg grådig over byttet og tok sauer, okser og kalver, og slaktet dem på bakken; og folket spiste dem med blodet.
B1930
og tok straks fatt på hærfanget; de tok småfe og storfe og kalver og slaktet dem på marken og åt kjøttet med blodet i.

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Cross references

  • 1 Samuel 15:19

    Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?

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  • Leviticus 3:17

    It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

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  • Deuteronomy 12:16

    Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

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  • Leviticus 17:10–14

    And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

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  • Genesis 9:4

    But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

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  • Leviticus 19:26

    Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

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  • Acts 15:20

    But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

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  • Deuteronomy 12:23–24

    Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

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