Leviticus 7:26

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And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.

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  • Gen 9:4 : 4 But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.
  • Lev 3:17 : 17 This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”
  • Lev 17:10-14 : 10 Prohibition against Eating Blood“‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, 11 for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life. 12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood. 13 “‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil, 14 for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood– all who eat it will be cut off.
  • Acts 15:20 : 20 but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.
  • Eph 1:7 : 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
  • 1 Sam 14:33-34 : 33 Now it was reported to Saul,“Look, the army is sinning against the LORD by eating even the blood.” He said,“All of you have broken the covenant! Roll a large stone over here to me.” 34 Then Saul said,“Scatter out among the army and say to them,‘Each of you bring to me your ox and sheep and slaughter them in this spot and eat. But don’t sin against the LORD by eating the blood.” So that night each one brought his ox and slaughtered it there.
  • Ezek 33:25 : 25 Therefore say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, pray to your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess the land?
  • John 6:53 : 53 Jesus said to them,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 7:27-28
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    27Any person who eats any blood– that person will be cut off from his people.’”

    28Priestly Portions of Peace Offerings Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 17:10-15
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    10Prohibition against Eating Blood“‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people,

    11for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.

    12Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood.

    13“‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,

    14for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood– all who eat it will be cut off.

    15Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.

  • Deut 12:22-24
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    22Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

    23However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!

    24You must not eat it! You must pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Gen 9:4
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    4But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.

  • Deut 12:16
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    16However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Deut 15:23
    81%

    23However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Lev 3:17
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    17This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”

  • Lev 7:23-25
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    23“Tell the Israelites,‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.

    24Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must certainly never eat it.

    25If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.

  • Lev 19:26
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    26Blood, Hair, and Body“‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.

  • Deut 14:20-21
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    20You may eat any clean winged creature.

    21You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Lev 6:27
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    27Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, you must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.

  • Ezek 39:17-19
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    17“As for you, son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Tell every kind of bird and every wild beast:‘Assemble and come! Gather from all around to my slaughter which I am going to make for you, a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel! You will eat flesh and drink blood.

    18You will eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the princes of the earth– the rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened animals of Bashan.

    19You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, at my slaughter which I have made for you.

  • Exod 22:31
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    31“You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.

  • Lev 7:19-21
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    19The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.

    20The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people.

    21When a person touches anything unclean(whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.’”

  • Lev 17:3
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    3“Blood guilt will be accounted to any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,

  • Deut 14:3
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    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

  • Ezek 44:31
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    31The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.

  • Lev 20:25
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    25Therefore you must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground– creatures I have distinguished for you as unclean.

  • Lev 11:8
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    8You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

  • Exod 12:46
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    46It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.

  • Deut 12:27
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    27You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; the blood of your other sacrifices you must pour out on his altar while you eat the meat.

  • Deut 28:26
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    26Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

  • Ezek 33:25
    72%

    25Therefore say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, pray to your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess the land?

  • Deut 14:11
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    11All ritually clean birds you may eat.

  • Lev 22:8
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    8He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the LORD.

  • Lev 6:30
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    30But any sin offering from which some of its blood is brought into the Meeting Tent to make atonement in the sanctuary must not be eaten. It must be burned up in the fire.