Deuteronomy 12:15

13 Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

14 but in the place which the Lord chooses, in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

15 “However, ^ayou may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; ^bthe unclean and the clean may eat of it, ^cof the gazelle and the deer alike.

16 ^aOnly you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or your new wine or your oil, of the firstborn of your herd or your flock, of any of your offerings which you vow, of your freewill offerings, or of the¹ heave offering of your hand.

18 But you must eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God chooses, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in¹ all to which you put your hands.

Commentaries:

No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Deuteronomy 12:15.

Deuteronomy 12:15-16

So from the earliest parts of our times of Israel, this was a law, and the Jews would have thought it very repugnant to eat meat with blood in any form because the life is in the blood. We know that from Leviticus 17:11 and several other scriptures all the way, going all the way back to time of Noah and probably before then, but that is where it first comes up in the Scripture, and eating the blood violates the life given for our sustenance. So no Jew would eat with a Gentile who served strangled bloody meat.

Excerpted from The Jerusalem Council's Conclusion

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