Leviticus 17:13
Anyone of the people of Israel, or any of the foreigners who live among them, who hunts and kills an animal or bird that may be eaten, that person must pour out its blood and cover the blood with earth.
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Leviticus 7:26You must eat no blood whatsoever in any of your houses, whether it is from a bird or an animal.
Deuteronomy 12:24You will not eat it; you will pour it out on the earth like water.
1 Samuel 14:32The people rushed greedily on the plunder and took sheep, oxen and calves, and killed them on the ground. The people ate them with the blood.
Ezekiel 24:7For her blood is in the midst of her. She has set it on the smooth rock; she has not poured it out on the ground to cover it with dust,
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 17:11-16
The Eating of Blood Forbidden. ( b. c. 1490.) 10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth 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 an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No… Read the whole commentary →