Deuteronomy 12:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 12:27 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God; and you shall eat the flesh.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God; and you shall eat the flesh.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And you shall make your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God, and you shall eat the meat.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God; and you shall eat the flesh.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your other sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your other sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah thy God; and thou shalt eat the flesh.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And thou shalt make thy burnt offerings of the flesh, and of the blood vpon the altar of the Lord thy God, and the blood of thine offerings shall bee powred vpon the altar of the Lord thy God, and thou shalt eate the flesh.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And shalt offer thy oblations the flesh and the blood upon the altar of the Lord thy God: the blood of thy victims thou shalt pour on the altar: and the flesh thou thyself shalt eat.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and thou hast made thy burnt-offerings -- the flesh and the blood -- on the altar of Jehovah thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices is poured out by the altar of Jehovah thy God, and the flesh thou dost eat.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and you have made your burnt-offerings—the flesh and the blood—on the altar of your God YHWH; and the blood of your sacrifices is poured out by the altar of your God YHWH, and you eat the flesh.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    There you will offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; the blood of your sacrifices will be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God, and you will eat the flesh.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And you shall make your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God, and you shall eat the meat.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah thy God, and the flesh shalt thou eat.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the LORD your God’s altar. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the LORD your God’s altar, and you shall eat the meat.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Present your burnt offerings, the meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your other sacrifices is to be poured out beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you are allowed to eat the meat.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out against the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.

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יִשָּׁפֵךְ֙
shâphak
H8210
“to pour”
Verb, Niphal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
Part of Speech
Verb
Stem
Niphal
Form
Imperfect
Person
3rd Person
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 2444

to pour, pour out, spill - (Qal) - to pour, pour out - to shed (blood) - to pour out (anger or heart) (figuratively) - (Niphal) to be poured out, be shed - (Pual) to be poured out, be shed - (Hithpael) - to be poured out - to pour out oneself
  1. וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ ʻâsâh H6213 “and · to do” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. עֹלֹתֶ֨יךָ֙ ʻôlâh H5930 “burnt offerings · your” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  3. הַבָּשָׂ֣ר bâsâr H1320 “the · flesh” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  4. וְהַדָּ֔ם dâm H1818 “and · the · blood” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  5. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  6. מִזְבַּ֖ח mizbêach H4196 “altar of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  7. יְהוָ֣ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  8. אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ ʼĕlôhîym H430 “God(s) · your” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  9. וְדַם dâm H1818 “and · blood of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  10. זְבָחֶ֗יךָ zebach H2077 “sacrifices · your” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  11. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  12. מִזְבַּח֙ mizbêach H4196 “altar of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  13. יְהוָ֣ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  14. אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ ʼĕlôhîym H430 “God(s) · your” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  15. וְהַבָּשָׂ֖ר bâsâr H1320 “and · the · flesh” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  16. תֹּאכֵֽל ʼâkal H398 “to eat” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular

About this verse

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17
words
11
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 12 nouns
  • 2 prepositions

Verb forms

  • וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • יִשָּׁפֵךְ֙ Niphal · Imperfect
  • תֹּאכֵֽל Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • הַבָּשָׂ֣ר flesh H1320 ×2
  • וְהַדָּ֔ם blood H1818 ×2
  • עַל upon H5921 ×2
  • מִזְבַּ֖ח altar H4196 ×2
  • יְהוָ֣ה LORD H3068 ×2
  • אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ God H430 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 42 words from the Hebrew and 48 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 12:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Leviticus 1:13 but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
  • Leviticus 1:9 but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
  • Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.
  • Leviticus 1:5 He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
  • Leviticus 4:30 The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Deuteronomy 12:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ עֹלֹתֶ֨יךָ֙ הַבָּשָׂ֣ר וְהַדָּ֔ם עַל מִזְבַּ֖ח יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ וְדַם זְבָחֶ֗יךָ יִשָּׁפֵךְ֙ עַל מִזְבַּח֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ וְהַבָּשָׂ֖ר תֹּאכֵֽל

and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God; and you shall eat the flesh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 12:27 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ποιέω ὁ ὁλοκαύτωμα σύ ὁ κρέας ἀναφέρω ἐπί ὁ θυσιαστήριον κύριος ὁ θεός σύ ὁ δέ αἷμα ὁ θυσία σύ προςχέω πρός ὁ βάσις ὁ θυσιαστήριον κύριος ὁ θεός σύ ὁ δέ κρέας ἐσθίω

And you shall sacrifice your whole burnt offerings, you shall offer the flesh upon the altar of the Lord your God; but the blood of your sacrifices you shall pour out at the foot of the altar of the Lord your God, but the flesh you shall eat.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְתַעְבֵּד עֲלָוָתָךְ בִּשְׂרָא וּדְמָא עַל מַדְבְּחָא דַיְיָ אֱלָהָךְ וְדַם נִכְסַת קוּדְשָׁיךְ יִתָּשַׁד עַל מַדְבְּחָא דַיְיָ אֱלָהָךְ וּבִשְׂרָא תֵּיכוּל

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְתַעֲבֵיד כְּהִלְכָתָא עֲלָוָותָךְ בִּסְרָא וְאַדְמָא עַל מַדְבְּחָא דַיְיָ אֱלָהָךְ וַאֲדַם שְׁאַר נִכְסַת קוּדְשָׁךְ יִשְׁתְּפֵךְ עַל מַדְבְּחָא דַיְיָ אֱלָהָךְ וּבִשְרָא אִתְכְּשָׁר לְמֵיכוֹל

    and thou shalt do (with them) according to the rite of thy burnt offerings, (and offer) the flesh and the blood upon the altar of the Lord thy God: the blood of the rest of thy holy oblations shall be poured out at the altar of the Lord thy God, but of the flesh it is lawful to eat.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Deuteronomy 12:27 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Joseph Benson's Commentary

Deu 12:27. Thou shalt eat the flesh — Excepting what shall be burned to God’s honour, and given to the priest, according to his appointment.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

12:27 you may eat the meat: The exception was meat sacrificed in burnt offerings, which was to be given to the Lord and wholly consumed in the fire (see Lev 1:3-17 and study note).

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(27) The blood of thy sacrifices—i.e., peace offerings, the only kind of which the worshipper as well as the priest might partake.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the Lord thy God,.... And on that only, even the altar of burnt offering:

and the blood of thy sacrifices; one as well as another, not only of the burnt offerings, but of the sin offerings, trespass offerings, and peace offerings:

shall be poured out upon the altar of the Lord thy God: either sprinkled on it, or poured out at the bottom of it; see Lev 1:1,

and thou shalt eat the flesh; that is, of the peace offerings, for of them only might the people eat, and that only before the Lord.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Oblations. Hebrew, "holocausts....and the blood of the sacrifices," of peace. Parts of the latter were eaten by the offerer, but the former victims were entirely burnt. (Haydock)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Excepting what shall be burned to God’s honour, and given to the priest according to his appointment.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The flesh - Excepting what shall be burned to God's, honour, and given to the priest according to his appointment.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ועשית עלתיך AND THOU SHALT OFFER THY BURNT OFFERINGS — i.e. if they (thy sacrifices) be burnt offerings, put the flesh as well as the blood on the altar, but if they are peace offerings, then “the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured” first on the altar and afterwards you may eat the flesh. Furthermore did our Rabbis deduce that [the words] “thy sacrifices, however, [thou shalt bear, etc.]” are intended to teach with regard to consecrated animals that are outside the Land (abroad) as well as regards such animals that have been exchanged for other consecrated animals, and finally regarding the young of consecrated animals that [all] such must [also] be offered [in Jerusalem] (Sifrei Devarim 77:1; Bekhorot 14b).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 17 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâphak (“to pour”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “to pour” (shâphak) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Leviticus 1:13, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “flesh” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. «וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Joseph Benson's Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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