Deuteronomy 12:16

Catholic Public Domain Version

Only the blood you shall not eat. Instead, you shall pour it upon the ground like water.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

except that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

Ezekiel 24:7

For her blood is in her midst; she has shed it upon the smoothest rock. She has not shed it upon the ground, so that it could be covered with dust.

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore, you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You who eat even the blood, and who lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and who shed blood: will you possess the land as an inheritance?

Leviticus 19:26

You shall not eat with blood. You shall not practice divination, nor the observation of dreams.

Leviticus 3:17

by a perpetual law, in your generations and in all of your habitations, neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.

Acts 15:20

but instead that we write to them, that they should keep themselves from the defilement of idols, and from fornication, and from whatever has been suffocated, and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from things immolated to idols, and from blood, and from what has been suffocated, and from fornication. You will do well to keep yourselves from these things. Farewell."

Deuteronomy 15:22

Instead, you shall eat it within the gates of your city. The clean as well as the unclean alike shall feed on these, such as the roe deer and the stag.

Deuteronomy 15:23

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

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected which is received with thanksgiving;

1 Samuel 14:32

And turning to the spoils, they took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and they slew them on the ground. And the people ate with blood.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then they reported to Saul, saying that the people had sinned against the Lord, eating with blood. And he said: "You have transgressed. Roll a great stone to me, here and now."