Deuteronomy 12:23

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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.

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  • Lev 17:11 : 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.
  • Gen 9:4 : 4 But you must not eat meat that still has its lifeblood in it.
  • Lev 17:13-14 : 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.
  • Deut 12:16 : 16 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
  • Lev 3:16-17 : 16 The priest shall burn them on the altar as food, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD. All the fat belongs to the LORD. 17 This is a permanent statute for your generations in all your dwelling places: You must not eat any fat or blood.

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  • Gen 9:3-4
    2 verses
    88%

    3Every living creature that moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the plants, I now give you everything.

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

  • Deut 15:22-23
    2 verses
    87%

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

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

  • Deut 12:15-16
    2 verses
    87%

    15However, 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.

    16But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Lev 17:10-15
    6 verses
    86%

    10Any 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.

    11For 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.

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

    13Any 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.

    14For 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.

    15Anyone, 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.

  • Deut 12:24-25
    2 verses
    85%

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

    25Do 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.

  • Lev 7:24-28
    5 verses
    83%

    24The fat of an animal found dead and the fat of an animal torn by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose but must not be eaten.

    25Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering to the Lord is made must be cut off from their people.

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

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

    28Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Lev 3:17
    78%

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

  • Lev 19:26
    77%

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

  • Deut 12:22
    77%

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

  • Deut 12:27
    76%

    27Offer 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.

  • Exod 12:9
    75%

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

  • John 6:53
    75%

    53Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.'

  • Ezek 39:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18You 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.

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

  • Exod 12:45-46
    2 verses
    74%

    45A temporary resident or hired servant may not eat of it.

    46It 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 33:25
    74%

    25Therefore, 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?'

  • Deut 14:21
    74%

    21You 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.

  • Luke 12:23
    73%

    23For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

  • Deut 14:3
    73%

    3You shall not eat any detestable thing.

  • Num 35:33
    73%

    33Do 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 22:8
    73%

    8He must not eat anything that has died naturally or been torn by wild animals, making himself unclean by it. I am the LORD.

  • Deut 19:10
    72%

    10This 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.

  • Lev 11:47
    71%

    47You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.

  • Lev 10:18
    71%

    18Since its blood was not brought inside the sanctuary, you should have eaten it in the holy place as I commanded.

  • Deut 12:19
    71%

    19Be careful not to neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.

  • Lev 11:2
    71%

    2Speak to the Israelites and tell them: These are the living creatures that you may eat among all the animals on the earth: