Leviticus 17:14

The Scriptures 2009

for it is the life of all flesh. Its blood is for its life. And I said to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Do not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Anyone eating it is cut off.’

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

“But do not eat flesh with its life, its blood.

Exodus 30:33

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

Leviticus 3:17

‘An everlasting law throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you do not eat any fat or any blood.’ ”

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from the defilements of idols, and from whoring, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Deuteronomy 12:23

“Only, be strong not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, do not eat the life with the meat.