Deuteronomy 12:23

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 flesh.

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 any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 17:11

For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life.

Leviticus 19:26

“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.

Leviticus 7:26

Moreover you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwellings.

Matthew 20:28

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

Acts 15:20

but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood.

Deuteronomy 12:16

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

Deuteronomy 12:22

Just as the gazelle or the hart is eaten, so you may eat of it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.

Deuteronomy 12:24

You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water.

Deuteronomy 15:23

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

Revelation 5:9

and they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy art thou to take the scroll and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and by thy blood didst ransom men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

1 Samuel 14:32

the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then they told Saul, “Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord, by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.”