Verse 23

Onely bee sure that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou maiest not eate the life with the flesh.

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 17:11 : 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I haue giuen it vnto you to offer vpon the altar, to make an atonemet for your soules: for this blood shall make an atonement for the soule.
  • Gen 9:4 : 4 But flesh with the life thereof, I meane, with the blood thereof, shall ye not eate.
  • Lev 17:13-14 : 13 Moreouer whosoeuer he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that soiourne among the, which by hunting taketh any beast or foule that may be eaten, he shal powre out the blood thereof, and couer it with dust: 14 For ye life of all flesh is his blood, it is ioyned with his life: therefore I sayd vnto the children of Israel, Ye shall eate the blood of no flesh: for the life of al flesh is the blood thereof: whosoeuer eateth it, shalbe cut off.
  • Deut 12:16 : 16 Onely ye shal not eat the blood, but powre it vpon the earth as water.
  • Lev 3:16-17 : 16 So the Priest shall burne them vpon the altar, as the meate of an offering made by fire for a sweete sauour: all the fatte is the Lordes. 17 This shalbe a perpetual ordinance for your generations, throughout al your dwellings, so that ye shall eate neither fatte nor blood.