Verse 16

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

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  • Gen 9:4 : 4 But flesh with its life, which is the blood, you shall not eat.
  • Deut 15:23 : 23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused, if it is received with thanksgiving;
  • Lev 7:26-27 : 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.
  • Lev 17:10-13 : 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.
  • Deut 12:23-24 : 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.