Deuteronomy 12:27

27 and ¹offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, but the flesh you may eat.

Deuteronomy 12:27 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 12:27

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 ( Leviticus 1:1-1:17 ) ( 3:1-4:35 ) ,

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.

Deuteronomy 12:27 In-Context

25 You shall not eat it, that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

26 But the holy things that are due from you, and your vow offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the place that the LORD will choose,

27 and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, but the flesh you may eat.

28 Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

29 "When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,

Cross References

• 1. Lev. 1:5, 9, 13; Leviticus 17:11