Leviticus 17:14

American King James Version (1999)

For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said to the children of Israel, You shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whoever eats it shall be cut off.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat.

Exodus 30:33

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

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood.

Acts 15:20

But that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Deuteronomy 12:23

Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.