Leviticus 17:14

Bible in Basic English 1965

For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

Exodus 30:33

Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a priest, will be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 3:17

Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.

Acts 15:20

But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

Deuteronomy 12:23

But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.