Deuteronomy 12:16

Modern English Version

only you must not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the ground like water.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

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

Ezekiel 24:7

For her blood is in her midst; she set it on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: You eat meat with the blood in it and lift up your eyes toward your idols as you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

Leviticus 19:26

You shall not eat anything with the blood in it, nor shall you practice divination or fortune-telling.

Leviticus 3:17

As a continual statute for your generations in all your settlements, you shall not eat any fat or any blood.

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood.

Acts 15:29

Abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

Deuteronomy 15:22

You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean person alike shall eat it, as if it were a gazelle or a deer.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only you must not eat its blood. You shall pour it on the ground like water.

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything created by God is good, and not to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving,

1 Samuel 14:32

The people rushed upon the spoil; they took sheep, oxen, and calves and slew them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then they reported to Saul, saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt faithlessly. Roll a great stone to me this day.”