Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.
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- Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.
- Genesis 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
- Leviticus 17:13–14 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who taketh in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. 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.