Leviticus 19:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ “You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ You shall not eat anything with the blood; neither shall you use magic, omens, or witchcraft [or predict events by horoscope or signs and lucky days].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Ye shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury.

Common English Bible

²⁶ You must not eat anything with its blood. You must not participate in divination or fortune-telling.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ You shall not eat with blood. You shall not practice divination, nor the observation of dreams.

Leviticus 19:26 Cross References

2 Kings 17:17

They made their sons and their daughters pass through fire, used divination and augury, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

2 Chronicles 33:6

He made his son pass through fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, practiced soothsaying and augury and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

2 Kings 21:6

He made his son pass through fire; he practiced soothsaying and augury and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

Deuteronomy 12:23

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.

Leviticus 7:26

You must not eat any blood whatever, either of bird or of animal, in any of your settlements.

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”

Jeremiah 10:2

Thus says the Lord: Do not learn the way of the nations or be dismayed at the signs of the heavens, for the nations are dismayed at them.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Daniel 2:10

The Chaldeans answered the king, “There is no one on earth who can reveal what the king demands! In fact, no king, however great and powerful, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean.

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is no less a sin than divination, and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Exodus 8:7

But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and brought frogs up on the land of Egypt.

Exodus 7:11

Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same by their secret arts.

Acts 15:20

but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from sexual immorality and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.

Genesis 9:4

Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Genesis 44:5

Is it not from this that my lord drinks? Does he not indeed use it for divination? You have done wrong in doing this.’ ”

Leviticus 19:25

But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that their yield may be increased for you: I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 12:16

The blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Its blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

1 Samuel 14:32

so the troops flew upon the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground, and the troops ate them with the blood.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then it was reported to Saul, “Look, the troops are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a large stone before me here.”