Deuteronomy 12:23

English Standard Version 2016

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

Cross References

Leviticus 17:11

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.

Genesis 9:4

But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Deuteronomy 12:16

Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

Revelation 5:9

And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,

Matthew 20:28

even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Acts 15:20

but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

Leviticus 7:26

Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.

Leviticus 17:10

“If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 19:26

“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.

Deuteronomy 12:22

Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.

Deuteronomy 12:24

You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

1 Samuel 14:32

The people pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then they told Saul, “Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.”

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?