Leviticus 17:14

New English Translation

for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood – all who eat it will be cut off.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.

Exodus 30:33

Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest will be cut off from his people.’”

Leviticus 3:17

This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”

Acts 15:20

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

Deuteronomy 12:23

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself – you must not eat the life with the meat!