Deuteronomy 15:23

Modern English Version

Only you must not eat its 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 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 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.

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 12:15

Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and of the deer,

Deuteronomy 12:16

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

Deuteronomy 12:23

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.

Deuteronomy 12:24

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

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.”