Leviticus 7:26

World English Bible (2000)

You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 9:4 : 4 But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
  • Lev 3:17 : 17 "'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"
  • Lev 17:10-14 : 10 "'Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his 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 souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. 12 Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, "No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood." 13 "'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust. 14 For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, "You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off."
  • Acts 15:20 : 20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."
  • Eph 1:7 : 7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
  • 1 Sam 14:33-34 : 33 Then they told Saul, saying, "Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood." He said, "You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me this day!" 34 Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, 'Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh in eating meat with the blood.'" All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.
  • Ezek 33:25 : 25 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
  • John 6:53 : 53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 7:27-28
    2 verses
    89%

    27Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"

    28Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 17:10-15
    6 verses
    84%

    10"'Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

    11For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

    12Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, "No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood."

    13"'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

    14For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, "You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off."

    15"'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.

  • Deut 12:22-24
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    83%

    22Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.

    23Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

    24You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

  • Gen 9:4
    82%

    4But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

  • Deut 12:16
    81%

    16Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

  • Deut 15:23
    81%

    23Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.

  • Lev 3:17
    80%

    17"'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"

  • Lev 7:23-25
    3 verses
    80%

    23"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat.

    24The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.

    25For whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.

  • Lev 19:26
    79%

    26"'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.

  • Deut 14:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20Of all clean birds you may eat.

    21You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

  • Lev 6:27
    74%

    27Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.

  • Ezek 39:17-19
    3 verses
    74%

    17You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.

    18You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

    19You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

  • Exod 22:31
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    31"You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

  • Lev 7:19-21
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    19"'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it;

    20but the soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

    21When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"

  • Lev 17:3
    73%

    3Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,

  • Deut 14:3
    73%

    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Ezek 44:31
    73%

    31The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.

  • Lev 20:25
    72%

    25"'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

  • Lev 11:8
    72%

    8Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

  • Exod 12:46
    72%

    46In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.

  • Deut 12:27
    72%

    27and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God; and you shall eat the flesh.

  • Deut 28:26
    72%

    26Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

  • Ezek 33:25
    72%

    25Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?

  • Deut 14:11
    72%

    11Of all clean birds you may eat.

  • Lev 22:8
    71%

    8That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.

  • Lev 6:30
    71%

    30No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten: it shall be burned with fire.