Deuteronomy 12:24

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You must not eat it! You must pour it out on the ground like water.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 12:16 : 16 However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.
  • Deut 15:23 : 23 However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

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  • Deut 12:16-17
    2 verses
    91%

    16However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.

    17You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.

  • Deut 15:23
    89%

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

  • Deut 12:22-23
    2 verses
    85%

    22Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

    23However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!

  • Deut 12:25
    83%

    25You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the LORD’s sight.

  • Gen 9:4
    80%

    4But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.

  • Lev 17:10-14
    5 verses
    78%

    10Prohibition against Eating Blood“‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people,

    11for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.

    12Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood.

    13“‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,

    14for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood– all who eat it will be cut off.

  • Lev 7:24-27
    4 verses
    77%

    24Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must certainly never eat it.

    25If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.

    26And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.

    27Any person who eats any blood– that person will be cut off from his people.’”

  • Deut 12:27
    77%

    27You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; the blood of your other sacrifices you must pour out on his altar while you eat the meat.

  • Deut 14:21
    75%

    21You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Lev 19:26
    75%

    26Blood, Hair, and Body“‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.

  • Exod 12:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails.

    10You must leave nothing until morning, but you must burn with fire whatever remains of it until morning.

  • Lev 6:27-28
    2 verses
    74%

    27Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, you must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.

    28Any clay vessel it is boiled in must be broken, and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then that vessel must be rubbed out and rinsed in water.

  • Deut 14:3
    74%

    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

  • Lev 3:17
    73%

    17This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”

  • Lev 11:34
    73%

    34Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.

  • Exod 34:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with yeast; the sacrifice from the Feast of Passover must not remain until the following morning.

    26“The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God.You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

  • Exod 30:32
    73%

    32It must not be applied to people’s bodies, and you must not make any like it with the same recipe. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.

  • Exod 23:19
    73%

    19The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God.“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Exod 12:45-46
    2 verses
    73%

    45A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.

    46It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.

  • Exod 29:12
    72%

    12and take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; all the rest of the blood you are to pour out at the base of the altar.

  • Deut 19:10
    72%

    10You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

  • Exod 22:31
    72%

    31“You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.

  • Lev 2:6
    72%

    6Crumble it in pieces and pour olive oil on it– it is a grain offering.

  • Lev 18:28
    72%

    28So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

  • Lev 22:24
    72%

    24You must not present to the LORD something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; you must not do this in your land.

  • Ezek 4:11
    72%

    11And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.

  • Num 35:33
    72%

    33“You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

  • Ezek 39:19
    72%

    19You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, at my slaughter which I have made for you.

  • Num 18:32
    71%

    32And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

  • Lev 11:38
    71%

    38but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

  • Deut 12:4
    71%

    4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.