Leviticus 17:14

The English Standar Version

For the life of every creature[1] is its blood: its blood is its life.[2] 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

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

It shall be a statute forever 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 things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what 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 flesh.