Leviticus 17:12

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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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 12:49 : 49 The same law will apply to the person who is native-born and to the resident foreigner who lives among you.”

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  • Lev 17:13-15
    3 verses
    89%

    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,

    14for 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.

    15Regulations 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.

  • Lev 17:8-11
    4 verses
    88%

    8“You are to say to them:‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst, who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice

    9but does not bring it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to offer it to the LORD– that person will be cut off from his people.

    10Prohibition 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,

    11for 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.

  • Deut 12:23-24
    2 verses
    85%

    23However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!

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

  • Lev 7:25-28
    4 verses
    85%

    25If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.

    26And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.

    27Any person who eats any blood– that person will be cut off from his people.’”

    28Priestly Portions of Peace Offerings Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Gen 9:4
    82%

    4But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.

  • Deut 12:16
    81%

    16However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Deut 15:23
    79%

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

  • Lev 3:17
    78%

    17This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”

  • Lev 19:26
    76%

    26Blood, Hair, and Body“‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.

  • Lev 17:3-4
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    3“Blood guilt will be accounted to any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,

    4but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to present it as an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people.

  • Ezek 33:25
    75%

    25Therefore 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?

  • Exod 12:43
    74%

    43Participation in the Passover The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,“This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may share in eating it.

  • Deut 14:21
    74%

    21You 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.

  • Lev 22:10
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    10“‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,

  • Ezek 39:17-19
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    17“As for you, son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Tell every kind of bird and every wild beast:‘Assemble and come! Gather from all around to my slaughter which I am going to make for you, a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel! You will eat flesh and drink blood.

    18You 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.

    19You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, at my slaughter which I have made for you.

  • Exod 12:45-48
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    72%

    45A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.

    46It 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.

    47The whole community of Israel must observe it.

    48“When a resident foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land– but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

  • Lev 18:26
    72%

    26You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,

  • Deut 12:27
    72%

    27You 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.

  • Num 35:33
    72%

    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.

  • Lev 7:20
    71%

    20The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people.

  • Exod 29:33
    71%

    33They are to eat those things by which atonement was made to consecrate and to set them apart, but no one else may eat them, for they are holy.

  • Exod 22:31
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 19:10
    71%

    10You 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.

  • Lev 6:27
    71%

    27Anyone 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.

  • Lev 10:18
    71%

    18See here! Its blood was not brought into the holy place within! You should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary just as I commanded!”

  • Lev 11:2
    71%

    2“Tell the Israelites:‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.