Deuteronomy 15:23 - Revised Standard Version CI

²³ Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.

Common English Bible

²³ Even so, don’t consume any blood. Pour it out on the ground, like water.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ This alone shall you observe: that you do not eat their blood, but pour it upon the ground like water."

Deuteronomy 15:23 Cross References

Genesis 9:4

Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: You eat flesh with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?

Leviticus 17:10

“If any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 19:26

“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.

Leviticus 7:26

Moreover you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwellings.

Acts 15:20

but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood.

Deuteronomy 12:15

“However, you may slaughter and eat flesh within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the hart.

Deuteronomy 12:16

Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood; for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 12:24

You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water.

1 Samuel 14:32

the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then they told Saul, “Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord, by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.”