Leviticus 17:10–11; Leviticus 17:14; Deuteronomy 12:16; Deuteronomy 12:23; 1 Samuel 14:33; Acts 15:20; Acts 15:29

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Leviticus 17:10–11

Laws Against Eating Blood

10 If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them deats any blood, I will eset my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. 11 fFor the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar gto make atonement for your souls, hfor it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.


Leviticus 17:14

14 For the life of every creature1 is its kblood: its blood is its life.2 Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.


Deuteronomy 12:16

16 wOnly you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.


Deuteronomy 12:23

23 dOnly be sure that you do not eat the blood, efor the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.


1 Samuel 14:33

33 Then they told Saul, Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating hwith the blood. And he said, You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.1


Acts 15:20

20 but should write to them pto abstain from qthe things polluted by idols, and from rsexual immorality, and from swhat has been strangled, and from sblood.


Acts 15:29

29 jthat you abstain from kwhat has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.