Leviticus 17:14

New King James Version

for it is the life of all flesh. Its blood sustains its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, ‘You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.’

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

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

Exodus 30:33

Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on an outsider, shall be cut off from his people.’ ”

Leviticus 3:17

‘This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.

Deuteronomy 12:23

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