Leviticus 17:14

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.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

except that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

Exodus 30:33

Whatever man will have composed such a thing and have given it to a stranger, he shall be exterminated from his people.' "

Leviticus 3:17

by a perpetual law, in your generations and in all of your habitations, neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.

Acts 15:20

but instead that we write to them, that they should keep themselves from the defilement of idols, and from fornication, and from whatever has been suffocated, and from blood.

Deuteronomy 12:23

Only beware of this: you may not eat the blood. For their blood is for the soul. And because of this, you must not eat the soul with the flesh.