Deuteronomy 15:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Deut 12:16 : 16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.
  • Deut 12:23 : 23 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.
  • Lev 7:26 : 26 Moreover, you shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.
  • 1 Sam 14:32 : 32 The people rushed on the spoil, took sheep, oxen, and calves, slaughtered them on the ground, and the people ate them with the blood.
  • Ezek 33:25 : 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?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 12:15-16
    2 verses
    93%

    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.

  • Deut 12:22-25
    4 verses
    89%

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

    23 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.

    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.

  • Gen 9:4
    81%

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

  • Lev 7:26-28
    3 verses
    81%

    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,

  • Deut 15:22
    80%

    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.

  • Lev 17:10-15
    6 verses
    79%

    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 12:27
    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.

  • Num 35:33
    75%

    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.

  • 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.

  • Lev 6:27-28
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

    28 But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken: and if it is boiled in a bronze pot, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.

  • Lev 3:17
    74%

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

  • Deut 14:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20 But of all clean birds you may eat.

    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.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Lev 19:26
    73%

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

  • Exod 29:12
    73%

    12 And you shall take some of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the base of the altar.

  • Lev 1:15
    73%

    15 And the priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out at the side of the altar:

  • Ezek 33:25
    72%

    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?

  • Exod 12:46
    72%

    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.

  • Exod 29:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 And you shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it all around on the altar.

    17 And you shall cut the ram in pieces, wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and with its head.

  • 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 11:34
    72%

    34 Of all food which may be eaten, that on which such water comes shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

  • Lev 17:3
    72%

    3 Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,

  • Exod 22:31
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 14:3
    71%

    3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Exod 29:31
    71%

    31 And you shall take the ram of the consecration and boil its flesh in the holy place.

  • Num 18:17
    70%

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

  • Lev 10:18
    70%

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