Leviticus 17:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food.

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  • Exod 12:49 : 49 The law is the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the man from a strange country who is living with you.

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  • Lev 17:13-15
    3 verses
    89%

    13And any man of Israel, or any other living among them, who gets with his bow any beast or bird used for food, is to see that its blood is covered with earth.

    14For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.

    15And anyone who takes as food anything which has come to a natural end, or anything which has been put to death by beasts, if he is one of you by birth, or of another nation, will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening, and then he will be clean.

  • Lev 17:8-11
    4 verses
    88%

    8And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,

    9And does not take it to the door of the Tent of meeting to make an offering to the Lord, that man will be cut off from among his people.

    10And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.

    11For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.

  • Deut 12:23-24
    2 verses
    85%

    23But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

    24Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

  • Lev 7:25-28
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    25For anyone who takes as food the fat of any beast of which men make an offering by fire to the Lord, will be cut off from his people.

    26And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.

    27Whoever takes any blood for food will be cut off from his people.

    28And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Gen 9:4
    82%

    4But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

  • Deut 12:16
    81%

    16But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

  • Deut 15:23
    79%

    23Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

  • Lev 3:17
    78%

    17Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.

  • Lev 19:26
    76%

    26Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

  • Lev 17:3-4
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    75%

    3If any man of Israel puts to death an ox or a lamb or a goat, in or outside the tent-circle;

    4And has not taken it to the door of the Tent of meeting, to make an offering to the Lord, before the Lord's House, its blood will be on him, for he has taken life, and he will be cut off from among his people:

  • Ezek 33:25
    75%

    25For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?

  • Exod 12:43
    74%

    43And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover: no man who is not an Israelite is to take of it:

  • Deut 14:21
    74%

    21You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

  • Lev 22:10
    73%

    10No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment.

  • Ezek 39:17-19
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    17And you, son of man, this is what the Lord has said: Say to the birds of every sort and to all the beasts of the field, Get together and come; come together on every side to the offering which I am putting to death for you, a great offering on the mountains of Israel, so that you may have flesh for your food and blood for your drink.

    18The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.

    19You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you.

  • Exod 12:45-48
    4 verses
    72%

    45A man from a strange country living among you, and a servant working for payment, may not take part in it.

    46It is to be taken in one house; not a bit of the flesh is to be taken out of the house, and no bone of it may be broken.

    47All Israel is to keep the feast.

    48And if a man from another country is living with you, and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the males of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it; for he will then be as one of your people; but no one without circumcision may keep it.

  • Lev 18:26
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    26So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you:

  • Deut 12:27
    72%

    27Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.

  • Num 35:33
    72%

    33So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.

  • Lev 7:20
    71%

    20But he who is unclean when he takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

  • Exod 29:33
    71%

    33All those things which were used as offerings to take away sin, and to make them holy to be priests, they may have for food: but no one who is not a priest may have them, for they are holy food.

  • Exod 22:31
    71%

    31You are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal whose death has been caused by the beasts of the field may be used for your food; it is to be given to the dogs.

  • Deut 19:10
    71%

    10So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

  • Lev 10:18
    71%

    18See, its blood was not taken into the holy place: certainly it was right for you to have taken it as food in the holy place, as I gave orders.

  • Lev 11:2
    71%

    2Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth.