Leviticus 17:14 - Tree of Life Version For the life of every creature, its blood is in its life. Therefore I said to Bnei-Yisrael: You are not to eat the blood of any kind of creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it is to be cut off. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof; therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As for the life of all flesh, the blood of it represents the life of it; therefore I said to the Israelites, You shall partake of the blood of no kind of flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats of it shall be cut off. American Standard Version (1901) For as to the life of all flesh, the blood thereof is all one with the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. Common English Bible Again: for every creature’s life, its blood is its life. That is why I have told the Israelites: You must not consume any creature’s blood because every creature’s life is its blood. Anyone who consumes it will be cut off. Catholic Public Domain Version For the life of all flesh is in the blood. Therefore, I said to the sons of Israel: You shall not eat the blood of any flesh at all, because the life of the flesh is in the blood, and whoever has eaten it shall perish. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the life of all flesh is in the blood. Therefore I said to the children of Israel: You shall not eat the blood of any flesh at all, because the life of the flesh is in the blood, and whosoever eateth it, shall be cut off. |
Whoever mixes any like it, or whoever puts any of it on anyone unauthorized, will be cut off from his people.’”
“It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you must eat neither fat nor blood.”
but to write to them to abstain from the contamination of idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood—for the blood is the life, and you are not to eat the life with the meat.