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
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.
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 12:23
12:23 However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself
– you must not eat the life with the meat!
Deuteronomy 14:21
14:21 You 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.
Deuteronomy 15:23
15:23 However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 15:1
Release for Debt Slaves
15:1 At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts.
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
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.
Acts 15:25
15:25 we have unanimously
decided
to choose men to send to you along with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,
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 15:1
The Jerusalem Council
15:1 Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
Acts 4:4
4:4 But many of those who had listened to
the message
believed, and the number of the men
came to about five thousand.