Deuteronomy 15:23

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

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 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.

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 12:15

So, if you wish to eat, and if the eating of flesh pleases you, then kill and eat according to the blessing of the Lord your God, which he has given to you, in your cities: you may eat it whether it is unclean, that is, having blemish or defect, or whether it is clean, that is, whole and without blemish, of the kind which is permitted to be offered, such as the roe deer and the stag.

Deuteronomy 12:16

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

Deuteronomy 12:23

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.

Deuteronomy 12:24

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

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."