Deuteronomy 15:23

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

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  • Deut 12:16 : 16 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
  • Deut 12:23 : 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.
  • Lev 7:26 : 26 And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
  • 1 Sam 14:32 : 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.
  • Ezek 33:25 : 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?'

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  • Deut 12:15-16
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    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.

  • Deut 12:22-25
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    89%

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

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

    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.

  • Gen 9:4
    81%

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

  • Lev 7:26-28
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    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:

  • Deut 15:22
    80%

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

  • Lev 17:10-15
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    79%

    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 12:27
    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.

  • Num 35:33
    75%

    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.

  • 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.

  • Lev 3:17
    74%

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

  • Deut 14:20-21
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    20You may eat any clean flying creature.

    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.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
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    74%

    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.

  • Lev 19:26
    73%

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

  • Exod 29:12
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    12Take 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.

  • Lev 1:15
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    15The 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.

  • Ezek 33:25
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    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?'

  • Exod 12:46
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    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.

  • Exod 29:16-17
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    72%

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

    17Cut the ram into pieces, wash its entrails and legs, and place them with its head and other pieces.

  • Deut 19:10
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    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 11:34
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    34Any 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.

  • Lev 17:3
    72%

    3Anyone from the house of Israel who sacrifices an ox, a lamb, or a goat in the camp, or outside the camp,

  • Deut 14:3
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    3You shall not eat any detestable thing.

  • Exod 29:31
    71%

    31You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its meat in a holy place.

  • Num 18:17
    70%

    17But 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 10:18
    70%

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