Verse 23

But be strong, that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eate the life with the fleshe.

Referenced Verses

• Lev 17:11 : 11 For the life of the fleshe is in the blood, and I haue geuen it vnto you vpon the aulter, to make an attonement for your soules: for this blood shall make an attonement for the soule.
• Gen 9:4 : 4 But flesh in the life therof which is the blood therof, shall ye not eate.
• Lev 17:13-14 : 13 And whatsoeuer man it be of the chyldren of Israel, or of the straungers that soiourne among you, whiche hunteth and catcheth any beast or foule that may be eaten, let hym powre out the blood thereof, and couer it with dust. 14 For the lyfe of the fleshe is the blood of it ioyned with his lyfe: therefore I sayde vnto the chyldren of Israel, ye shal eate the blood of no maner of flesh, for the life of all fleshe is the blood therof: whosoeuer eateth it, shalbe cut of.
• Deut 12:16 : 16 Only ye shall not eate the blood, but powre it vpon the earth as water.
• Lev 3:16-17 : 16 And the priest shall burne them vpon the aulter, for the foode of the sacrifice made by fire for a sweete sauour: All the fat is the Lordes. 17 Let it be a perpetuall statute for your generations throughout your dwellynges, yt ye eate neither fat nor blood.