Deuteronomy 12:23

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

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

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 17:10

Whoever from the house of Israel, or from the strangers who sojourn among you, who eats any manner of blood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 17:11

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

Leviticus 19:26

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

Leviticus 7:26

Moreover you shall not eat any manner of blood, whether from a fowl or animal, in any of your dwellings.

Matthew 20:28

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

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.

Deuteronomy 12:16

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

Deuteronomy 12:22

Even as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you shall eat them. The unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

Deuteronomy 12:24

You must not eat it. You must pour it on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 15:23

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

Revelation 5:9

And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

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.”