Deuteronomy 12:23

Catholic Public Domain Version

Only beware of this: you may not eat the blood. For their blood is for the soul. And because of this, you must not eat the soul with the flesh.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

except that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

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 17:10

Any man at all of the house of Israel, or of the newcomers who sojourn among them, if he has eaten blood, I will harden my face against his soul, and I will drive him from his people.

Leviticus 17:11

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you, so that you may atone with it upon the altar for your souls, and so that the blood may be for an expiation of the soul.

Leviticus 19:26

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

Leviticus 7:26

Likewise, you shall not take as food the blood of any animals at all, whether of birds or beasts.

Matthew 20:28

even as the Son of man has not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a redemption for many."

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.

Deuteronomy 12:16

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

Deuteronomy 12:22

Just as the roe deer and the stag may be eaten, so also may you eat these: you may eat both the clean and the unclean alike.

Deuteronomy 12:24

Instead, you shall pour it upon the ground like water,

Deuteronomy 15:23

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

Revelation 5:9

And they were singing a new canticle, saying: "O Lord, you are worthy to receive the book and to open its seals, because you were slain and have redeemed us for God, by your blood, from every tribe and language and people and nation.

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."