Deuteronomy 12:16

New King James Version

Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.

Leviticus 19:26

‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying.

Deuteronomy 15:22

You may eat it within your gates; the unclean and the clean person alike may eat it, as if it were a gazelle or a deer.

1 Samuel 14:32

And the people rushed on the spoil, and took sheep, oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then they told Saul, saying, “Look, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood!” So he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a large stone to me this day.”

Ezekiel 24:7

For her blood is in her midst; She set it on top of a rock; She did not pour it on the ground, To cover it with dust.

Ezekiel 33:25

“Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “You eat meat with blood, you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

Leviticus 3:17

‘This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”