Leviticus 17:14 - The Scriptures 2009

for it is the life of all flesh. Its blood is for its life. And I said to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Do not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Anyone eating it is cut off.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof; therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

As for the life of all flesh, the blood of it represents the life of it; therefore I said to the Israelites, You shall partake of the blood of no kind of flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats of it shall be cut off.

American Standard Version (1901)

For as to the life of all flesh, the blood thereof is all one with the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

Common English Bible

Again: for every creature’s life, its blood is its life. That is why I have told the Israelites: You must not consume any creature’s blood because every creature’s life is its blood. Anyone who consumes it will be cut off.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For the life of all flesh is in the blood. Therefore, I said to the sons of Israel: You shall not eat the blood of any flesh at all, because the life of the flesh is in the blood, and whoever has eaten it shall perish.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For the life of all flesh is in the blood. Therefore I said to the children of Israel: You shall not eat the blood of any flesh at all, because the life of the flesh is in the blood, and whosoever eateth it, shall be cut off.

Leviticus 17:14 Cross References

Genesis 9:4

“But do not eat flesh with its life, its blood.

Exodus 30:33

‘Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, shall be cut off from his people.’ ”

Leviticus 3:17

‘An everlasting law throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you do not eat any fat or any blood.’ ”

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from the defilements of idols, and from whoring, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Deuteronomy 12:23

“Only, be strong not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, do not eat the life with the meat.