Deuteronomy 12:16

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Deuteronomy 12:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.

15 But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,

16 but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

17 Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.

18 Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Deuteronomy 12:23

Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

Deuteronomy 12:24

You must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 15:23

But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

Genesis 9:4

But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

Leviticus 7:26

You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.

Leviticus 7:27

If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.’”

Leviticus 17:10

If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 17:11

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

Leviticus 17:12

Therefore I say to the Israelites, ‘None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.’

Leviticus 17:13

And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.

Acts 15:29

You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,