Leviticus 17:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“And anyone of the Israelites or of the aliens who reside among them who hunts down an animal or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.

Cross References

Job 16:18

“O earth, do not cover my blood; let my outcry find no resting place.

Proverbs 6:26

for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.

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.

Leviticus 17:12

Therefore I have said to the Israelites, ‘No person among you shall eat blood, nor shall any alien who resides among you eat blood.’

Leviticus 7:26

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

Deuteronomy 12:16

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

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.