Deuteronomy 12:23

Tree of Life Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

Only flesh with its life—that is, its blood—you must not eat!

Ezekiel 33:25

“Therefore say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘You eat with the blood, lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood. Should you possess the land?

Leviticus 17:10

“Anyone from the house of Israel, or from the outsiders dwelling among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul—the one who eats blood—and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 17:11

For the life of the creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives—for it is the blood that makes atonement because of the life.

Leviticus 19:26

“You are not to eat any meat with the blood still in it, nor are you to use enchantments, or practice sorcery.

Leviticus 7:26

“You are not to eat any blood, whether it is from a bird or an animal, in any of your dwellings.

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

Acts 15:20

but to write to them to abstain from the contamination of idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Deuteronomy 12:16

But you are not to eat the blood—you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:22

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

Deuteronomy 12:24

You are not to eat it—you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only its blood you are not to eat—you must pour it out on the ground like water.

Revelation 5:9

And they are singing a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals. For You were slain, and by Your blood You redeemed for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

1 Samuel 14:32

Then the people rushed greedily upon the plunder, took sheep, oxen and calves, butchered them on the ground, and the people ate them with the blood.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then they reported to Saul saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against Adonai by eating with the blood.” “You have acted faithlessly,” he said. “Roll a great stone towards me at once.”