Deuteronomy 15:23
Good News Translation
But do not use their blood for food; instead, you must pour it out on the ground like water.

New Revised Standard Version
Its blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Contemporary English Version
But you must never eat the blood of an animal--let it drain out on the ground.

New American Bible
Only, you must not eat of its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out on the earth as water.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out on the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 12:16,23 Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. . . .

Leviticus 7:26 Moreover you shall not eat the blood of any creature whatsoever, whether of birds or beasts.

1 Samuel 14:32 And falling upon the spoils, they took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people ate them with the blood.

Ezekiel 33:25 Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: You that eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and that shed blood: shall you possess the land by inheritance?

Context
Firstborn Animals
22But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city: the clean and the unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and as the hart. 23Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out on the earth as water.
Cross References
Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.

Genesis 9:4
Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

Leviticus 7:26
Moreover you shall not eat the blood of any creature whatsoever, whether of birds or beasts.

Leviticus 17:10
If any man whosoever of the house of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn among them, eat blood, I will set my face against his soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 19:26
You shall not eat with blood. You shall not divine nor observe dreams.

Deuteronomy 12:16
Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 12:23
Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood is for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the flesh:

1 Samuel 14:33
And they told Saul that the people had sinned against the Lord, eating with the blood. And he said: You have transgressed: roll here to me now a great stone.

Ezekiel 33:25
Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: You that eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and that shed blood: shall you possess the land by inheritance?

Deuteronomy 15:22
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