Deuteronomy 12:16

New International Version

But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

Deuteronomy 15:23

But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

Acts 15:29

You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

Acts 15:20

Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

Leviticus 19:26

“ ‘Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. “ ‘Do not practice divination or seek omens.

Deuteronomy 15:22

You are to eat it in your own towns. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as if it were gazelle or deer.

1 Samuel 14:32

They pounced on the plunder and, taking sheep, cattle and calves, they butchered them on the ground and ate them, together with the blood.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then someone said to Saul, “Look, the men are sinning against the Lord by eating meat that has blood in it.” “You have broken faith,” he said. “Roll a large stone over here at once.”

Ezekiel 24:7

“ ‘For the blood she shed is in her midst: She poured it on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground, where the dust would cover it.

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Since you eat meat with the blood still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land?

Leviticus 3:17

“ ‘This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.’ ”