Leviticus 17:14

New International Version

because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, “You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.”

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

Exodus 30:33

Whoever makes perfume like it and puts it on anyone other than a priest must be cut off from their people.’ ”

Leviticus 3:17

“ ‘This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.’ ”

Acts 15:20

Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

Deuteronomy 12:23

But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.