Deuteronomy 12:23

New International Version

But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in 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 17:10

“ ‘I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood, and I will cut them off from the people.

Leviticus 17:11

For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.

Leviticus 19:26

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

Leviticus 7:26

And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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.

Deuteronomy 12:16

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

Deuteronomy 12:22

Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.

Deuteronomy 12:24

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

Deuteronomy 15:23

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

Revelation 5:9

And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.

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.”