Leviticus 17:14

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“For the life of every creature is the blood of it; 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 outsider shall be cut off from his people.’ ”

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”

Acts 15:20

but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is 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 flesh.