KJV King James Version
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.
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1 Samuel 14:32
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and the people make unto the spoil, and take sheep, and oxen, and sons of the herd, and slaughter on the earth, and the people eat with the blood.
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 14
29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
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.
32 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.
35 And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיַּ֤עַטH5860 · itto screamהָעָם֙H5971 · ampeopleאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)הַשָּׁלָ֔לH7998 · sha.lalspoilוַיִּקְח֨וּH3947 · la.qachto take: takeצֹ֧אןH6629 · tsonflockוּבָקָ֛רH1241 · ba.qarcattleוּבְנֵ֥יH1121 · benson: childבָקָ֖רH1241 · ba.qarcattleוַיִּשְׁחֲטוּ־H7819 · sha.chatto slaughterאָ֑רְצָהH776 · e.retsland: country/planetוַיֹּ֥אכַלH398 · a.khalto eatהָעָ֖םH5971 · ampeopleעַל־H5921 · aluponהַדָּֽם׃H1818 · damblood
Cross-references
1 Samuel 15:19Wherefore 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?Leviticus 3:17[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.Deuteronomy 12:16Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.Leviticus 17:10-14And 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.Leviticus 19:26Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.Genesis 9:4But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.Deuteronomy 12:23-24Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.Acts 15:20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.Leviticus 7:26-27Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, [whether it be] of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.Ezekiel 33:25Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?Acts 15:29That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
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