Deuteronomy 12:16

New American Bible - revised edition

Only, you shall not eat of the blood, but must pour it out on the ground like water.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

Only meat with its lifeblood still in it you shall not eat.

Ezekiel 24:7

For her blood is still in her midst; on a bare rock she left it; She did not pour it on the ground to be covered with dirt.

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You eat on the mountains, you raise your eyes to your idols, you shed blood—yet you would keep possession of the land?

Leviticus 19:26

Do not eat anything with the blood still in it. Do not recite charms or practice soothsaying.

Leviticus 3:17

This shall be a perpetual ordinance for your descendants wherever they may dwell. You shall not eat any fat or any blood.

Acts 15:20

but tell them by letter to avoid pollution from idols, unlawful marriage, the meat of strangled animals, and blood.

Acts 15:29

namely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage. If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell.’” Delegates at Antioch.

Deuteronomy 15:22

but in your own communities you may eat it, the unclean and the clean eating it together, as you would a gazelle or a deer.

Deuteronomy 15:23

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

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected when received with thanksgiving,

1 Samuel 14:32

So the army pounced upon the plunder and took sheep, oxen, and calves, slaughtering them on the ground and eating the meat with the blood in it.

1 Samuel 14:33

Informed that the army was sinning against the Lord by eating the meat with blood in it, Saul said: “You have broken faith. Roll a large stone here for me.”