Deuteronomy 15:23

Bible in Basic English 1965

Only do not take its blood for food, but let it 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 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 17:10

And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.

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 7:26

And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.

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.

Deuteronomy 12:15

Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.

Deuteronomy 12:16

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

Deuteronomy 12:23

But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 12:24

Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

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.