Deuteronomy 12:24

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Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

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  • Deut 12:16 : 16 But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.
  • Deut 15:23 : 23 Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

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  • Deut 12:16-17
    2 verses
    91%

    16But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

    17In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering;

  • Deut 15:23
    89%

    23Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

  • Deut 12:22-23
    2 verses
    85%

    22It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.

    23But 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.

  • Deut 12:25
    83%

    25Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Gen 9:4
    80%

    4But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

  • Lev 17:10-14
    5 verses
    78%

    10And 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.

    11For 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.

    12For 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.

    13And 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.

    14For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.

  • Lev 7:24-27
    4 verses
    77%

    24And the fat of that which comes to a natural death, and the fat of that which is attacked by beasts, may be used for other purposes, but not in any way for food.

    25For anyone who takes as food the fat of any beast of which men make an offering by fire to the Lord, will be cut off from his people.

    26And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.

    27Whoever takes any blood for food will be cut off from his people.

  • Deut 12:27
    77%

    27Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.

  • Deut 14:21
    75%

    21You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

  • Lev 19:26
    75%

    26Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

  • Exod 12:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9Do not take it uncooked or cooked with boiling water, but let it be cooked in the oven; its head with its legs and its inside parts.

    10Do not keep any of it till the morning; anything which is not used is to be burned with fire.

  • Deut 14:3
    74%

    3No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Lev 3:17
    73%

    17Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.

  • Lev 11:34
    73%

    34Any food in it, and anything on which water from it comes, will be unclean: any drink taken from such a vessel will be unclean.

  • Exod 34:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25No leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering, and the offering of the Passover feast may not be kept till the morning.

    26Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk

  • Exod 30:32
    73%

    32It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to be made like it: holy it is, and you are to keep it holy.

  • Exod 23:19
    73%

    19The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

  • Exod 12:45-46
    2 verses
    73%

    45A man from a strange country living among you, and a servant working for payment, may not take part in it.

    46It is to be taken in one house; not a bit of the flesh is to be taken out of the house, and no bone of it may be broken.

  • Exod 29:12
    72%

    12Then take some of the blood of the ox, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, draining out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

  • Deut 19:10
    72%

    10So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

  • Exod 22:31
    72%

    31You are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal whose death has been caused by the beasts of the field may be used for your food; it is to be given to the dogs.

  • Lev 2:6
    72%

    6Let it be broken into bits, and put oil on it; it is a meal offering.

  • Lev 18:28
    72%

    28So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

  • Lev 22:24
    72%

    24An animal which has its sex parts damaged or crushed or broken or cut, may not be offered to the Lord; such a thing may not be done anywhere in your land.

  • Ezek 4:11
    72%

    11And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.

  • Num 35:33
    72%

    33So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.

  • Ezek 39:19
    72%

    19You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you.

  • Num 18:32
    71%

    32And no sin will be yours on account of it, when the best of it has been lifted up on high; you are not to make a wrong use of the holy things of the children of Israel, so that death may not overtake you.

  • Lev 11:38
    71%

    38But if water is put on the seed, and any part of the dead body gets on to it, it will be unclean to you.

  • Deut 12:4
    71%

    4Do not so to the Lord your God.