Deuteronomy 12:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; and you may 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 upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
  • Gen 9:4 : 4 But flesh with its life, which is the blood, you shall not eat.
  • Lev 17:13-14 : 13 And whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell among you, who hunts and catches any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust. 14 For it is the life of all flesh; its blood is for the life thereof: therefore I said to the children of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh: for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.
  • Deut 12:16 : 16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.
  • Lev 3:16-17 : 16 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the fire offering for a pleasing aroma: all the fat is the LORD's. 17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 9:3-4
    2 verses
    88%

    3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; just as the green herbs, I have given you all things.

    4 But flesh with its life, which is the blood, you shall not eat.

  • Deut 15:22-23
    2 verses
    87%

    22 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.

    23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.

  • Deut 12:15-16
    2 verses
    87%

    15 Yet you may slaughter and eat flesh inside all your gates, whatever your soul desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

    16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

  • Lev 17:10-15
    6 verses
    86%

    10 And whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell among you, that eats any manner of blood; I will set my face against that soul that eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

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

    12 Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, nor shall any stranger who dwells among you eat blood.

    13 And whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell among you, who hunts and catches any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

    14 For it is the life of all flesh; its blood is for the life thereof: therefore I said to the children of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh: for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.

    15 And every soul that eats what died of itself, or what 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 unclean until the evening: then shall he be clean.

  • Deut 12:24-25
    2 verses
    85%

    24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it upon the earth like water.

    25 You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

  • Lev 7:24-28
    5 verses
    83%

    24 And the fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat of an animal that is torn by beasts, may be used for any other purpose: but you shall not eat of it.

    25 For whoever eats the fat of the animal of which men offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.

    26 Moreover, you shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.

    27 Whatever soul it is that eats any blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

    28 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 3:17
    78%

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

  • Lev 19:26
    77%

    26 You shall not eat anything with the blood: nor shall you use enchantment, nor observe times.

  • Deut 12:22
    77%

    22 Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them; the unclean and the clean alike may eat them.

  • Deut 12:27
    76%

    27 And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God, and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh.

  • Exod 12:9
    75%

    9 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs, and its entrails.

  • John 6:53
    75%

    53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except 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%

    18 You 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.

    19 And you shall eat fat till you are full, and drink blood till you are drunk, at my sacrificial feast which I have prepared for you.

  • Exod 12:45-46
    2 verses
    74%

    45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

    46 In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break one of its bones.

  • Ezek 33:25
    74%

    25 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?

  • Deut 14:21
    74%

    21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

  • Lev 6:27
    73%

    27 Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy: and when some of its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in the holy place.

  • Luke 12:23
    73%

    23 Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.

  • Deut 14:3
    73%

    3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Num 35:33
    73%

    33 So you shall not pollute the land where you are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

  • Lev 22:8
    73%

    8 What dies of itself, or is torn by beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself with it: I am the LORD.

  • Deut 19:10
    72%

    10 That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and thus blood guilt be upon you.

  • Lev 11:47
    71%

    47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.

  • Lev 10:18
    71%

    18 Indeed, its blood was not brought into the holy place; you should have certainly eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.'

  • Deut 12:19
    71%

    19 Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live on the earth.

  • Exod 22:31
    71%

    31 And you shall be holy men to me; neither shall you eat any meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

  • Lev 11:2
    71%

    2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the animals which you shall eat among all the animals that are on the earth.