Deuteronomy 12:24

12:24 You must not eat it! You must pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:16

12:16 However, you must not eat blood – pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 15:23

15:23 However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 21:7

21:7 Then they must proclaim, “Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we ¹  witnessed the crime. ² 

Deuteronomy 12:27

12:27 You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; the blood of your other sacrifices ³  you must pour out on his ⁴  altar while you eat the meat.

Deuteronomy 19:10

19:10 You must not shed innocent blood ⁵  in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty. ⁶ 

[21:7]  ¹ tn Heb “our eyes.” This is a figure of speech known as synecdoche in which the part (the eyes) is put for the whole (the entire person).

[21:7]  ² tn Heb “seen”; the implied object (the crime committed) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:27]  ¹ sn These other sacrifices would be so-called peace or fellowship offerings whose ritual required a different use of the blood from that of burnt (sin and trespass) offerings (cf. Lev 3; 7:11-14, 19-21).

[12:27]  ² tn Heb “on the altar of the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[19:10]  ¹ tn Heb “innocent blood must not be shed.” The Hebrew phrase דָּם נָקִי (dam naqiy) means the blood of a person to whom no culpability or responsibility adheres because what he did was without malice aforethought (HALOT 224 s.v דָּם 4.b).

[19:10]  ² tn Heb “and blood will be upon you” (cf. KJV, ASV); NRSV “thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.”