1 Samuel 14:32 “So they rushed greedily to the plunder, taking sheep, cattle, and calv…”

1 Samuel 14:32

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

So the people turned to the spoile, and tooke sheepe, and oxen, and calues, and slewe them on the ground, and the people did eate them with the blood.

Darby Translation

And the people fell on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate [them] with the blood.

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.

Bible in Basic English

And rushing at the goods taken in the fight, the people took oxen and sheep and young oxen, and put them to death there on the earth, and had a meal, taking the flesh with the blood in it.

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Cross references

“flew”

1 Samuel 15:19

1 Samuel 15:19 · BSB

So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?”

“did eat”

Leviticus 3:17 Genesis 9:4 Leviticus 17:10–14 Leviticus 19:26 Deuteronomy 12:16 Acts 15:20

Leviticus 3:17 · BSB

This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”

Genesis 9:4 · BSB

But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

Leviticus 17:10–14 · BSB

If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 19:26 · BSB

You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.

Deuteronomy 12:16 · BSB

but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

Acts 15:20 · BSB

Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

31That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.

33Then someone reported to Saul: “Look, the troops are sinning against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.” “You have broken faith,” said Saul. “Roll a large stone over here at once.”

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