Deuteronomy 12:16

New English Translation

However, you must not eat blood – pour it out on the ground like water.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.

Ezekiel 24:7

For her blood was in it; she poured it on an exposed rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, pray to your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess the land?

Leviticus 19:26

“‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.

Leviticus 3:17

This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”

Acts 15:20

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.

Deuteronomy 15:22

You may eat it in your villages, whether you are ritually impure or clean, just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.

Deuteronomy 15:23

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

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.

1 Samuel 14:32

So the army rushed greedily on the plunder, confiscating sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them right on the ground, and the army ate them blood and all.

1 Samuel 14:33

Now it was reported to Saul, “Look, the army is sinning against the Lord by eating even the blood.” He said, “All of you have broken the covenant! Roll a large stone over here to me.”