Deuteronomy 15:23

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 12:16 : 16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
  • Deut 12:23 : 23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
  • Lev 7:26 : 26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
  • 1 Sam 14:32 : 32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
  • Ezek 33:25 : 25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 12:15-16
    2 verses
    93%

    15Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

    16Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

  • Deut 12:22-25
    4 verses
    89%

    22Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

    23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

    24Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

    25Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

  • Gen 9:4
    81%

    4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

  • Lev 7:26-28
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    81%

    26Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

    27Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his peop.

    28And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • Deut 15:22
    80%

    22Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.

  • Lev 17:10-15
    6 verses
    79%

    10And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his peop.

    11For the life of the fsh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

    12Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

    13And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

    14For it is the life of all fsh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of fsh: for the life of all fsh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

    15And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be uncan until the even: then shall he be can.

  • Deut 12:27
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    27And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.

  • Num 35:33
    75%

    33So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

  • Exod 12:9
    75%

    9Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

  • Lev 6:27-28
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    75%

    27Whatsoever shall touch the fsh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkd of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkd in the holy place.

    28But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.

  • Lev 3:17
    74%

    17It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

  • Deut 14:20-21
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    20But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

    21Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

    19And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

  • Lev 19:26
    73%

    26Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

  • Exod 29:12
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    12And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.

  • Lev 1:15
    73%

    15And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:

  • Ezek 33:25
    72%

    25Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

  • Exod 12:46
    72%

    46In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.

  • Exod 29:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.

    17And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.

  • Deut 19:10
    72%

    10That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

  • Lev 11:34
    72%

    34Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh shall be uncan: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be uncan.

  • Lev 17:3
    72%

    3What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that kilth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that kilth it out of the camp,

  • Exod 22:31
    72%

    31And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

  • Deut 14:3
    71%

    3Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

  • Exod 29:31
    71%

    31And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.

  • Num 18:17
    70%

    17But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

  • Lev 10:18
    70%

    18Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.