Deuteronomy 12:16

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But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

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  • Gen 9:4 : 4 But you must not eat meat that still has its lifeblood in it.
  • Deut 15:23 : 23 However, you must not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
  • Lev 7:26-27 : 26 And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal. 27 Anyone who eats blood must be cut off from their people.
  • Lev 17:10-13 : 10 Any Israelite or foreigner living among them who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person and cut them off from their people. 11 For the life of the flesh 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 by reason of the life. 12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood. 13 Any Israelite or foreigner living among you who hunts and catches a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood and cover it with earth.
  • Deut 12:23-24 : 23 But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. 24 You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 15:22-23
    2 verses
    93%

    22 Eat it within your gates. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or deer.

    23 However, you must not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Deut 12:22-27
    6 verses
    91%

    22 Just as the gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat this; both the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.

    23 But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

    24 You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

    25 Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

    26 Only take your holy offerings and your vows to the place the Lord will choose.

    27 Offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat the meat.

  • Lev 17:10-15
    6 verses
    81%

    10 Any Israelite or foreigner living among them who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person and cut them off from their people.

    11 For the life of the flesh 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 by reason of the life.

    12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.

    13 Any Israelite or foreigner living among you who hunts and catches a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood and cover it with earth.

    14 For the life of every creature is in its blood, and I have told the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is in its blood. Anyone who eats it must be cut off.

    15 Anyone, whether native or foreigner, who eats an animal that died naturally or was torn by wild animals must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and they will remain unclean until evening. Then they will be clean.

  • Lev 7:26-27
    2 verses
    81%

    26 And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.

    27 Anyone who eats blood must be cut off from their people.

  • Gen 9:4
    81%

    4 But you must not eat meat that still has its lifeblood in it.

  • Deut 12:15
    77%

    15 However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that He has given you. Both the unclean and the clean may eat it, as they would gazelle or deer.

  • Deut 12:17
    75%

    17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, new wine, or oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or any of your vowed offerings, freewill offerings, or special contributions.

  • Ezek 39:17-19
    3 verses
    75%

    17 Son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Speak to every kind of bird and all the wild animals, 'Assemble and come together from all around to my sacrifice that I am offering for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, so that you may eat flesh and drink blood.'

    18 You shall eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all fattened animals from Bashan.

    19 You will eat fat until you are satisfied and drink blood until you are drunk, from the sacrifice that I have prepared for you.

  • Lev 19:26
    75%

    26 Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. Do not practice divination or seek omens.

  • Deut 14:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20 You may eat any clean flying creature.

    21 You shall not eat anything that dies naturally. You may give it to the foreigner living in your towns so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people set apart for the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Num 35:33
    75%

    33 Do not pollute the land where you are, for bloodshed defiles the land; and no atonement can be made for the land that has been defiled by bloodshed except by the blood of the one who shed it.

  • Lev 3:17
    74%

    17 This is a permanent statute for your generations in all your dwelling places: You must not eat any fat or blood.

  • Exod 12:9
    74%

    9 Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but only roasted over the fire—its head, legs, and inner parts.

  • Deut 19:10
    73%

    10 This is to prevent the shedding of innocent blood within the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

  • Exod 29:12
    73%

    12 Take some of the bull’s blood, and with your finger, put it on the horns of the altar. Pour out all the remaining blood at the base of the altar.

  • Ezek 33:25
    72%

    25 Therefore, say to them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: You eat meat with the blood still in it, you look to your idols, and you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?'

  • 1 Sam 14:32
    72%

    32 They pounced on the plunder and took sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them on the ground and ate them, along with the blood.

  • Lev 11:34
    71%

    34 Any food that could be eaten but has water from such a pot on it will be unclean, and any drink that could be drunk from such a pot will be unclean.

  • Exod 12:46
    71%

    46 It must be eaten in a single house; you are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break any of its bones.

  • Ezek 32:6
    71%

    6 I will soak the land with your blood, right up to the mountains; and the ravines will be filled with your masses.

  • Heb 9:20
    71%

    20 saying, 'This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to follow.'

  • Num 18:17
    71%

    17 But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

  • Lev 1:15
    71%

    15 The priest shall bring it to the altar, wring off its head, and burn it on the altar. Its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar.

  • Deut 32:14
    71%

    14 Curds from cattle and milk from the flock, with fat from lambs, rams of Bashan breed, and goats, with the finest wheat, and you drank the blood of the grape as wine.

  • Exod 29:16
    71%

    16 Slaughter the ram, take its blood, and sprinkle it around the altar.