Verse 26

And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.

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  • Gen 9:4 : 4 But you must not eat meat that still has its lifeblood in it.
  • Lev 3:17 : 17 This is a permanent statute for your generations in all your dwelling places: You must not eat any fat or blood.
  • Lev 17:10-14 : 10 Any Israelite or foreigner living among them who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person and cut them off from their people. 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. 12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood. 13 Any Israelite or foreigner living among you who hunts and catches a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood and cover it with earth. 14 For the life of every creature is in its blood, and I have told the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is in its blood. Anyone who eats it must be cut off.
  • Acts 15:20 : 20 Instead, we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, sexual immorality, meat that has been strangled, and blood.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
  • Eph 1:7 : 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
  • 1 Sam 14:33-34 : 33 Someone reported to Saul, 'Look, the troops are sinning against the Lord by eating meat with blood in it.' Saul said, 'You have broken faith. Roll a large stone over here to me at once.' 34 Then he said, 'Go among the men and tell them, ‘Each of you bring me your ox and sheep, and slaughter them here and eat. Do not sin against the Lord by eating meat with blood in it.’' That night, everyone brought their oxen and slaughtered them there.
  • Ezek 33:25 : 25 Therefore, say to them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: You eat meat with the blood still in it, you look to your idols, and you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?'
  • John 6:53 : 53 Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.'