Deuteronomy 12:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

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

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 17:10

“If anyone of the house of Israel or of the aliens who reside among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut that person off from the people.

Leviticus 17:11

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you for making atonement for your lives on the altar, for, as life, it is the blood that makes atonement.

Leviticus 19:26

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

Leviticus 7:26

You must not eat any blood whatever, either of bird or of animal, in any of your settlements.

Matthew 20:28

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

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.

Deuteronomy 12:16

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

Deuteronomy 12:22

Indeed, just as gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.

Deuteronomy 12:24

Do not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 15:23

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

Revelation 5:9

They sing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to break its seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God saints from every tribe and language and people and nation;

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.”