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Psalms 50:13

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Formalism;   Offerings;   Scofield Reference Index - Judgments;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Burnt Offering, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Asaph;   Psalms, the Book of;   Sacrifice;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Forgiveness;   God;   Worship;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Bread, Bread of Presence;   Tabernacle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Goat;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bull;   Sacrifice;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   English Versions;   Gift, Giving;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Ox, Oxen, Herd, Cattle;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Blood ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ox, Oxen;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Bull;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Law in the Old Testament;   Wild Beast;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   God;   Sacrifice;  

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.
New English Translation
Do I eat the flesh of bulls? Do I 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?
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 (49-7) Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God. 8 (49-8) I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight. 9 (49-9) I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks. 10 (49-10) For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen. 11 (49-11) I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field. 12 (49-12) If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13 (49-13) Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats? 14 (49-14) Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High. 15 (49-15) And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify 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
And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in it, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth.
Genesis 25:9
And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave, which was situated in the field of Ephron the son of Seor the Hethite, over against Mambre,
Genesis 35:27
And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee, this is Hebron: wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
Genesis 35:29
And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Genesis 50:16
And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,
Genesis 50:18
And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the ground, they said: We are thy servants.
2 Kings 21:18
And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Oza: and Amon, his son, reigned in his stead.
Acts 7:16
And they were translated into Sichem and were laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hemor, the son of Sichem.

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.


 
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