Deuteronomy 15:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Its 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 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 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.

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 12:15

“Yet whenever you desire you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, according to the blessing that the Lord your God has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as they would of gazelle or deer.

Deuteronomy 12:16

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

Deuteronomy 12:23

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.

Deuteronomy 12:24

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

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.”