Genesis 9:4
9:4 But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.
Leviticus 3:17
3:17 This is
a perpetual statute throughout your generations
in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”
Leviticus 7:26-27
7:26 And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.
7:27 Any person who eats any blood – that person will be cut off from his people.’”
Leviticus 17:10-14
Prohibition against Eating Blood
17:10 “‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside 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,
17:11 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.
17:12 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.
17:13 “‘Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners who reside 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,
17:14 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.
Leviticus 19:26
Blood, Hair, and Body
19:26 “‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.
Deuteronomy 12:16
12:16 However, you must not eat blood – pour it out on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 12:1
The Central Sanctuary
12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess.
Deuteronomy 14:1
The Holy and the Profane
14:1 You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.
Acts 15:20-21
15:20 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.
15:21 For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every town from ancient times,
because he is read aloud
in the synagogues
every Sabbath.”
Acts 15:29
15:29 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.
Acts 21:25
21:25 But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided
that they should avoid
meat that has been sacrificed to idols
and blood and what has been strangled
and sexual immorality.”