Leviticus 7:26

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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.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 7:27-28
    2 verses
    89%

    27 Anyone who eats blood must be cut off from their people.

    28 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Lev 17:10-15
    6 verses
    84%

    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.

    15 Anyone, whether native or foreigner, who eats an animal that died naturally or was torn by wild animals must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and they will remain unclean until evening. Then they will be clean.

  • Deut 12:22-24
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    83%

    22 Just as the gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat this; both the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.

    23 But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

    24 You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Gen 9:4
    82%

    4 But you must not eat meat that still has its lifeblood in it.

  • Deut 12:16
    81%

    16 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Deut 15:23
    81%

    23 However, you must not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Lev 3:17
    80%

    17 This is a permanent statute for your generations in all your dwelling places: You must not eat any fat or blood.

  • Lev 7:23-25
    3 verses
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    23 Speak to the Israelites and say: You must not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep, or goats.

    24 The fat of an animal found dead and the fat of an animal torn by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose but must not be eaten.

    25 Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering to the Lord is made must be cut off from their people.

  • Lev 19:26
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    26 Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. Do not practice divination or seek omens.

  • Deut 14:20-21
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    74%

    20 You may eat any clean flying creature.

    21 You shall not eat anything that dies naturally. You may give it to the foreigner living in your towns so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people set apart for the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Ezek 39:17-19
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    74%

    17 Son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Speak to every kind of bird and all the wild animals, 'Assemble and come together from all around to my sacrifice that I am offering for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, so that you may eat flesh and drink blood.'

    18 You shall eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all fattened animals from Bashan.

    19 You will eat fat until you are satisfied and drink blood until you are drunk, from the sacrifice that I have prepared for you.

  • Lev 7:19-21
    3 verses
    74%

    19 Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten. It must be burned with fire. Only those who are clean may eat the meat.

    20 If anyone who is unclean eats the meat from the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people.

    21 If anyone touches something unclean, whether it is human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat from the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people.

  • Lev 17:3
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    3 Anyone from the house of Israel who sacrifices an ox, a lamb, or a goat in the camp, or outside the camp,

  • Deut 14:3
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    3 You shall not eat any detestable thing.

  • Ezek 44:31
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    31 The priests must not eat any bird or animal that has died naturally or been torn by wild beasts.

  • Lev 20:25
    72%

    25 You must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean. Do not make yourselves detestable by any animal, bird, or anything that moves on the ground that I have set apart as unclean for you.

  • Lev 11:8
    72%

    8 You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

  • Exod 12:46
    72%

    46 It must be eaten in a single house; you are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break any of its bones.

  • Deut 12:27
    72%

    27 Offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat the meat.

  • Deut 28:26
    72%

    26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

  • Ezek 33:25
    72%

    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?'

  • Deut 14:11
    72%

    11 You may eat any clean bird.

  • Lev 22:8
    71%

    8 He must not eat anything that has died naturally or been torn by wild animals, making himself unclean by it. I am the LORD.