Deuteronomy 12:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

Ezekiel 24:7

For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;

Ezekiel 33:25

For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?

Leviticus 19:26

Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

Leviticus 3:17

Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.

Acts 15:20

But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

Acts 15:29

To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

Deuteronomy 15:22

It may be used for food in your houses: the unclean and the clean may take of it, as of the gazelle and the roe.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

1 Timothy 4:4

Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:

1 Samuel 14:32

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.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then it was said to Saul, See, the people are sinning against the Lord, taking the blood with the flesh. And he said to those who gave him the news, Now let a great stone be rolled to me here.