Verse 16

But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 9:4 : 4 But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
• Deut 15:23 : 23 Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
• Acts 15:29 : 29 To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.
• 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:
• Lev 7:26-27 : 26 And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses. 27 Whoever takes any blood for food will be cut off from his people.
• Lev 17:10-13 : 10 And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people. 11 For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it. 12 For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food. 13 And any man of Israel, or any other living among them, who gets with his bow any beast or bird used for food, is to see that its blood is covered with earth.
• Deut 12:23-24 : 23 But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh. 24 Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.