Leviticus 17:14

Modern English Version

For the life of every creature is its blood; in its blood is its life. Therefore I said to the Israelites: You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

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

Exodus 30:33

Whoever makes anything like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman will be cut off from his people.”

Leviticus 3:17

As a continual statute for your generations in all your settlements, you shall not eat any fat or any blood.

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood.

Deuteronomy 12:23

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