Leviticus 17:14

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For the life of every creature—its blood is its life; therefore I have said to the people of Israel: 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 compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an unqualified person shall be cut off from the people.”

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.

Acts 15:20

but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.

Deuteronomy 12:23

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