Deuteronomy 12:16 References

16 "aOnly you shall not eat the blood; byou are to pour it out on the ground like water.

a Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 7:26, Leviticus 17:10-12, 1 Samuel 14:33, Acts 15:20, Acts 15:29

Genesis 9

4 "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, aits blood.

Leviticus 7

26 'aYou are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.

Leviticus 17

10 'aAnd any man from the house of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, who eats any blood, bI will set My face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.

11 'For athe life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for bit is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.'

12 "Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, 'No person among you may eat blood, nor may any alien who sojourns among you eat blood.'

1 Samuel 14

33 Then they told Saul, saying, "Behold, the people are asinning against the Lord by eating with the blood." And he said, "You have acted treacherously; roll a great stone to me today."

Acts 15

20 but that we write to them that they abstain from athings contaminated by idols and from bfornication and from cwhat is strangled and from blood.

Acts 15

29 that you abstain from athings sacrificed to idols and from ablood and from athings strangled and from afornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell."

Other references for Deuteronomy 12:16

b Deuteronomy 15:23