Deuteronomy 12:23

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Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

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The Jordan marked the boundary Israel would cross from the wilderness into the promised land of Canaan. Deuteronomy 12 gives instructions for life in that land, including the prohibition against consuming blood, because life belongs to God and blood represents it.

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Deuteronomy 12:23 mentions Jordan.