Deuteronomy 15:23

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.

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 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.

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 12:15

Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the Lord your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.

Deuteronomy 12:16

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

Deuteronomy 12:23

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.

Deuteronomy 12:24

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

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.”