Psalms 50:13

The NET Bible®

Do I eat the flesh of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Do I eat the flesh of bullsor drink the blood of goats?

Hebrew Names Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

King James Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

English Standard Version
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

New Century Version
I don't eat the meat of bulls or drink the blood of goats.

Amplified Bible
"Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats?

New American Standard Bible
"Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats?

World English Bible
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Will I eate the flesh of bulles? or drinke the blood of goates?

Legacy Standard Bible
Shall I eat the flesh of bullsOr drink the blood of male goats?

Berean Standard Bible
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Contemporary English Version
I don't eat the meat of bulls or drink the blood of goats.

Complete Jewish Bible
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

Darby Translation
Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?

Easy-to-Read Version
I don't eat the meat of bulls or drink the blood of goats."

George Lamsa Translation
I eat not the flesh of bulls, neither do I drink the blood of goats.

Good News Translation
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

Lexham English Bible
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

Literal Translation
Will I eat the flesh of mighty ones , and will I drink the blood of he-goats?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thynkest thou, that I wil eate the flesh of oxen, or drynke the bloude of goates?

American Standard Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

Bible in Basic English
Am I to take the flesh of the ox for my food, or the blood of goats for my drink?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

King James Version (1611)
Will I eate the flesh of bulles, or drinke the blood of goats?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thinkest thou that I will eate bulles fleshe: and drynke the blood of goates?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

English Revised Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether Y schal eete the fleischis of boolis? ethir schal Y drynke the blood of geet buckis?

Update Bible Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

Webster's Bible Translation
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

New King James Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

New Living Translation
Do I eat the meat of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats?

New Life Bible
Should I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of male goats?

New Revised Standard
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Will I eat the flesh of mighty oxen? Or, the blood of he-goats, will I drink?

Douay-Rheims Bible
(49-13) Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?

Revised Standard Version
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Young's Literal Translation
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats?

Contextual Overview

⁷ He says: "Listen my people! I am speaking! Listen Israel! I am accusing you! I am God, your God! ⁸ I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me. ⁹ I do not need to take a bull from your household or goats from your sheepfolds. ¹⁰ For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills. ¹¹ I keep track of every bird in the hills, and the insects of the field are mine. ¹² Even if I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all it contains belong to me. ¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats? ¹⁴ Present to God a thank-offering! Repay your vows to the sovereign One! ¹⁵ Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:12 - a thanksgiving Deuteronomy 32:38 - eat the fat Deuteronomy 33:19 - they shall Psalms 69:31 - also shall John 4:24 - must Romans 12:1 - that ye

Cross-References

Genesis 23:20
So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site from the sons of Heth.

Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hethite.

Genesis 35:27
So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

Genesis 35:29
Then Isaac breathed his last and joined his ancestors. He died an old man who had lived a full life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis 50:16
So they sent word to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave these instructions before he died:

Genesis 50:18
Then his brothers also came and threw themselves down before him; they said, "Here we are; we are your slaves."

2 Kings 21:18
Manasseh passed away and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzzah, and his son Amon replaced him as king.

Acts 7:16
and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?] That is, express a pleasure, take delight and satisfaction, in such kind of sacrifices, which can never take away sin: no, I will not; wherefore other sacrifices, more agreeable to his nature, mind, and will, and to the Gospel dispensation, are next mentioned.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? - This is said to show still further the absurdity of the views which seem to have prevailed among those who offered sacrifices. They offered them “as if” they were needed by God; “as if” they laid him under obligation; “as if” in some way they contributed to his happiness, or were essential to his welfare. The only supposition on which this could be true was, that he needed the flesh of the one for food, and the blood of the other for drink; or that he was sustained as creatures are. Yet this was a supposition, which, when it was stated in a formal manner, must be at once seen to be absurd; and hence the emphatic question in this verse. It may serve to illustrate this, also, to remark, that, among the pagan, the opinion did undoubtedly prevail that the gods ate and drank what was offered to them in sacrifice; whereas the truth was, that these things were consumed by the priests who attended on pagan altars, and conducted the devotions of pagan temples, and who found that it contributed much to their own support, and did much to secure the liberality of the people, to keep up the impression that what was thus offered was consumed by the gods. God appeals here to his own people in this earnest manner because it was to be presumed that “they” had higher conceptions of him than the pagan had; and that, enlightened as they were, they could not for a moment suppose these offerings necessary for him. This is one of the passages in the Old Testament which imply that God is a Spirit, and that, as such, he is to be worshipped in spirit and in truth. Compare John 4:24.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 50:13. Will I eat the flesh of bulls — Can ye be so simple as to suppose that I appointed such sacrifices for my own gratification? All these were significative of a spiritual worship, and of the sacrifice of that Lamb of God which, in the fulness of time, was to take away, in an atoning manner, the sin of the world.