Deuteronomy 12:16

The English Standar Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

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

Ezekiel 24:7

For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.

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 any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood."

Acts 15:20

but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what 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 has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell."

Deuteronomy 15:22

You shall eat it within your towns. The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only you shall not eat its blood; 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 if it is received with thanksgiving,

1 Samuel 14:32

The people pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered 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."[7]