Deuteronomy 12:23
However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!
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- Lev 17:11 : 11 for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.
- Gen 9:4 : 4 But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.
- Lev 17:13-14 : 13 “‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil, 14 for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood– all who eat it will be cut off.
- Deut 12:16 : 16 However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.
- Lev 3:16-17 : 16 Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma– all the fat belongs to the LORD. 17 This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”
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- Gen 9:3-42 verses88%
3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
4 But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.
- Deut 15:22-232 verses87%
22 You may eat it in your villages, whether you are ritually impure or clean, just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.
23 However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.
- Deut 12:15-162 verses87%
15 Regulations for Profane Slaughter On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the LORD your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.
16 However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.
- Lev 17:10-156 verses86%
10 Prohibition against Eating Blood“‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people,
11 for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.
12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood.
13 “‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,
14 for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood– all who eat it will be cut off.
15 Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.
- Deut 12:24-252 verses85%
24 You must not eat it! You must pour it out on the ground like water.
25 You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the LORD’s sight.
- Lev 7:24-285 verses83%
24 Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must certainly never eat it.
25 If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.
26 And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.
27 Any person who eats any blood– that person will be cut off from his people.’”
28 Priestly Portions of Peace Offerings Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
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17 This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”
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26 Blood, Hair, and Body“‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.
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22 Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.
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27 You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; the blood of your other sacrifices you must pour out on his altar while you eat the meat.
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9 Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails.
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53 Jesus said to them,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.
- Ezek 39:18-192 verses75%
18 You will eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the princes of the earth– the rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened animals of Bashan.
19 You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, at my slaughter which I have made for you.
- Exod 12:45-462 verses74%
45 A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.
46 It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.
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25 Therefore say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, pray to your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess the land?
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21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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27 Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, you must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.
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23 For there is more to life than food, and more to the body than clothing.
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3 You must not eat any forbidden thing.
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33 “You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
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8 He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the LORD.
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10 You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.
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47 to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”
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18 See here! Its blood was not brought into the holy place within! You should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary just as I commanded!”
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19 Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.
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31 “You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.
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2 “Tell the Israelites:‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.