Leviticus 7:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gen 9:4 : 4 But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
  • 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 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.
  • Acts 15:20 : 20 But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.
  • Eph 1:7 : 7 In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:
  • 1 Sam 14:33-34 : 33 Then it was said to Saul, See, the people are sinning against the Lord, taking the blood with the flesh. And he said to those who gave him the news, Now let a great stone be rolled to me here. 34 And Saul said, Go about among the people and say to them, Let every man come here to me with his ox and his sheep, and put them to death here, and take his meal: do no sin against the Lord by taking the blood with the flesh. So all the people took their oxen with them that night and put them to death there.
  • Ezek 33:25 : 25 For 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?
  • John 6:53 : 53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 7:27-28
    2 verses
    89%

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

    28 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 17:10-15
    6 verses
    84%

    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.

    15 And 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.

  • Deut 12:22-24
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    83%

    22 It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.

    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.

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

  • Gen 9:4
    82%

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

  • Deut 12:16
    81%

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

  • Deut 15:23
    81%

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

  • Lev 3:17
    80%

    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 7:23-25
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    23 Say to the children of Israel: You are not to take any fat, of ox or sheep or goat, for food.

    24 And 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.

    25 For 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.

  • Lev 19:26
    79%

    26 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.

  • Deut 14:20-21
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    74%

    20 But all clean birds you may take.

    21 You 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.

  • Ezek 39:17-19
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    74%

    17 And 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.

    18 The 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.

    19 You 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 22:31
    74%

    31 You 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 7:19-21
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    74%

    19 And flesh touched by any unclean thing may not be taken for food: it is to be burned with fire; and as for the flesh of the peace-offerings, everyone who is clean may take it as food:

    20 But 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.

    21 And anyone who, after touching any unclean thing of man or an unclean beast or any unclean and disgusting thing, takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

  • Lev 17:3
    73%

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

  • Deut 14:3
    73%

    3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Ezek 44:31
    73%

    31 The 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 20:25
    72%

    25 So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you.

  • Lev 11:8
    72%

    8 Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.

  • Exod 12:46
    72%

    46 It 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.

  • Deut 12:27
    72%

    27 Offering 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.

  • Deut 28:26
    72%

    26 Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.

  • Ezek 33:25
    72%

    25 For 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?

  • Deut 14:11
    72%

    11 All clean birds may be used for food.

  • Lev 22:8
    71%

    8 That 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.