Deuteronomy 12:16
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
BSB
ASV
Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
KJV
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Acts 15:29You 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.
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Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”
But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food…
But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
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Genesis 9:4But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
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Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.
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But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
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.
