Leviticus 19:26

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Nothing 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.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:17 : 17 And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.
  • Deut 12:23 : 23 But 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.
  • 2 Kgs 21:6 : 6 And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.
  • 2 Chr 33:6 : 6 More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.
  • Lev 3:17 : 17 Let 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 7:26 : 26 And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.
  • Lev 17:10-14 : 10 And 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. 11 For 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. 12 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. 13 And 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. 14 For 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.
  • Exod 7:11 : 11 Then Pharaoh sent for the wise men and the wonder-workers, and they, the wonder-workers of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts.
  • Exod 8:7 : 7 And the wonder-workers did the same with their secret arts, making frogs come up over the land of Egypt.
  • Jer 10:2 : 2 This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in fear of them.
  • Dan 2:10 : 10 Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in answer, There is not a man on earth able to make clear the king's business; for no king, however great his power, has ever made such a request to any wonder-worker or user of secret arts or Chaldaean.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
  • Deut 18:10-14 : 10 Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker, 11 Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions. 12 For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you. 13 You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God. 14 For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.
  • 1 Sam 15:23 : 23 For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.

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  • Lev 7:24-28
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    24And the fat of that which comes to a natural death, and the fat of that which is attacked by beasts, may be used for other purposes, but not in any way for food.

    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,

  • Lev 19:27-28
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    78%

    27The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.

    28You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

  • Gen 9:4
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    4But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

  • Deut 12:23-25
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    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.

    25Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Lev 17:10-14
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    76%

    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.

    12For 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.

    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.

  • Lev 3:17
    75%

    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.

  • Deut 12:16
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    16But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

  • Deut 18:9-11
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    9When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

    10Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,

    11Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.

  • Deut 15:23
    73%

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

  • Deut 14:3
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    3No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Lev 21:5
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    5They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh.

  • Deut 18:14
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    14For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.

  • Lev 19:25
    72%

    25But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 19:31
    71%

    31Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 14:21
    70%

    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.

  • Deut 14:1
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    1You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;

  • Ezek 33:25
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    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?

  • Lev 22:24
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    24An animal which has its sex parts damaged or crushed or broken or cut, may not be offered to the Lord; such a thing may not be done anywhere in your land.

  • Exod 22:31
    69%

    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.

  • Lev 19:19
    69%

    19Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field; do not put on a robe made of two sorts of cloth.

  • Exod 22:18
    69%

    18Any woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to be put to death.

  • Ezek 39:19
    69%

    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.

  • Lev 18:30
    69%

    30So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • Ezek 44:31
    68%

    31The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a natural death or whose death has been caused by another animal.

  • 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:

  • Exod 34:25
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    25No leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering, and the offering of the Passover feast may not be kept till the morning.

  • Deut 17:1
    68%

    1No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Lev 22:8
    68%

    8That which comes to a natural death, or is attacked by beasts, he may not take as food, for it will make him unclean: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 22:20
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    20But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord.