Leviticus 17:14

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.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

Deuteronomy 12:23

Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is for the soul. And therefore thou must not eat the soul with the flesh:

Acts 15:20

But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Exodus 30:33

What man soever shall compound such, and shall give thereof to a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 3:17

By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.