Genesis 9:4

New Century Version

But you must not eat meat that still has blood in it, because blood gives life.

Cross References

Ezekiel 33:25

So say to them: ‘This is what the Lord God says: You eat meat with the blood still in it, you ask your idols for help, and you murder people. Should you then have the land as your very own?

Leviticus 19:26

“ ‘You must not eat anything with the blood in it. “ ‘You must not try to tell the future by signs or black magic.

Leviticus 3:17

“ ‘This law will continue for people from now on, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or blood.’ ”

Leviticus 7:26

No matter where you live, you must not eat blood from any bird or animal.

Acts 15:20

Instead, we should write a letter to them telling them these things: Stay away from food that has been offered to idols (which makes it unclean), any kind of sexual sin, eating animals that have been strangled, and blood.

Acts 15:25

We have all agreed to choose some messengers and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul—

Acts 15:29

Stay away from any food that has been offered to idols, eating any animals that have been strangled, and blood, and any kind of sexual sin. If you stay away from these things, you will do well. Good-bye.

Deuteronomy 12:16

but do not eat the blood. Pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

but be sure you don’t eat the blood, because the life is in the blood. Don’t eat the life with the meat.

Deuteronomy 14:21

Do not eat anything you find that is already dead. You may give it to a foreigner living in your town, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. Do not cook a baby goat in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 15:23

But don’t eat its blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

1 Timothy 4:4

Everything God made is good, and nothing should be refused if it is accepted with thanks,

1 Samuel 14:32

They had taken sheep, cattle, and calves from the Philistines. Now they were so hungry they killed the animals on the ground and ate them, without draining the blood from them!