Deuteronomy 15:23

New English Translation

However, you must not eat its blood; you must 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 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 17:10

“‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside in their midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people,

Leviticus 19:26

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

Leviticus 7:26

And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.

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.

Deuteronomy 12:15

On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

Deuteronomy 12:16

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

Deuteronomy 12:23

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself – you must not eat the life with the meat!

Deuteronomy 12:24

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

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.”