Deuteronomy 12:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

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

Ezekiel 24:7

For the blood she shed is inside it; she placed it on a bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground, to cover it with earth.

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?

Leviticus 19:26

“You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”

Acts 15:20

but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from sexual immorality and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Deuteronomy 15:22

within your towns you may eat it, the unclean and the clean alike, as you would a gazelle or deer.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Its blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

1 Timothy 4:4

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

1 Samuel 14:32

so the troops flew upon the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground, and the troops ate them with the blood.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then it was reported to Saul, “Look, the troops are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a large stone before me here.”