Leviticus 17:14
For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”
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Cross references
- Genesis 9:4 But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
- Deuteronomy 12:23 Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.
- Leviticus 17:11–12 For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No person among you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.”