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Beasts » Not to be eaten alive or with blood
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
Only the blood you must not eat, [but] on the ground you must pour it like water.
Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.
Blood » Forbidden to be used as food
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
Only the blood you must not eat, [but] on the ground you must pour it like water.
Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.
[This is] a lasting statute for your generations in all your dwellings: you must not eat any fat or any blood.'"
And in any of your dwellings, you must not eat any blood {belonging to} birds or domestic animals. Any person who eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.'"
And [if there is] {anyone} from the house of Israel or from the alien who is dwelling in their midst who eats any blood, then I will set my face against the person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from among his people. Indeed the flesh's life [is] in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, because it [is] the blood with the life that makes atonement. {Therefore} I said to the {Israelites}, '{None of you} may eat blood, nor may the alien who is dwelling in your midst eat blood.' read more.
"And [if there is] {anyone} from the {Israelites} or from the alien who is dwelling in their midst who hunts a wild game animal or a bird that may be eaten, then he shall pour out its blood, and he shall cover it with the soil. Indeed, [the] life of all flesh, its blood, [is] in its life, so I said to the {Israelites}, 'You may not eat [the] blood of any flesh, because [the] life of all flesh [is] its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.'
"And [if there is] {anyone} from the {Israelites} or from the alien who is dwelling in their midst who hunts a wild game animal or a bird that may be eaten, then he shall pour out its blood, and he shall cover it with the soil. Indeed, [the] life of all flesh, its blood, [is] in its life, so I said to the {Israelites}, 'You may not eat [the] blood of any flesh, because [the] life of all flesh [is] its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.'
" 'You must not eat [anything] with the blood; you shall not practice divination, nor shall you interpret signs.
Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "You eat blood [in your meat], and you raise your eyes to your idols and you pour out blood, and [yet] you want to take possession of the land?
but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
[that you] abstain from food sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. [If you] keep yourselves from {these things} you will do well. Farewell.
But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter [after] deciding they should avoid food sacrificed to idols and blood and [what has been] strangled and sexual immorality."
Blood » Forbidden to be eaten
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
Only the blood you must not eat, [but] on the ground you must pour it like water.
And in any of your dwellings, you must not eat any blood {belonging to} birds or domestic animals.
[This is] a lasting statute for your generations in all your dwellings: you must not eat any fat or any blood.'"
but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
Then Saul said, "Disperse [yourselves] among the troops and say to them, 'Bring to me each [one] his ox and each his sheep and slaughter them in this [place] and eat, but do not sin against Yahweh by eating [the animals] with the blood.'" So all the troops brought [them], each [leading] his ox in his hand that night, and slaughtered [it] there.
Blood » Is the life
So Pilate, [when he] saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but instead an uproar was developing, took water [and] washed his hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this man. You see to [it]!"
Indeed the flesh's life [is] in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, because it [is] the blood with the life that makes atonement.
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.
saying, "I have sinned [by] betraying innocent blood!" But they said, "What [is that] to us? You see to [it]!"
Indeed, [the] life of all flesh, its blood, [is] in its life, so I said to the {Israelites}, 'You may not eat [the] blood of any flesh, because [the] life of all flesh [is] its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.'
You shall not go [about with] slander among your people; {you shall not endanger your neighbor's life}; I [am] Yahweh.
Blood » The life » Of animals
Indeed the flesh's life [is] in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, because it [is] the blood with the life that makes atonement.
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
Indeed, [the] life of all flesh, its blood, [is] in its life, so I said to the {Israelites}, 'You may not eat [the] blood of any flesh, because [the] life of all flesh [is] its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.'
Blood » Not consuming blood
" 'You must not eat [anything] with the blood; you shall not practice divination, nor shall you interpret signs.
{Therefore} I said to the {Israelites}, '{None of you} may eat blood, nor may the alien who is dwelling in your midst eat blood.'
Every moving thing that lives shall be for you as food. As [I gave] the green plants to you, I have [now] given you everything. Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
Blood » What blood is
Indeed the flesh's life [is] in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, because it [is] the blood with the life that makes atonement.
Every moving thing that lives shall be for you as food. As [I gave] the green plants to you, I have [now] given you everything. Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
Blood » Eating of, forbidden to » Man after the flood
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
Covenant » Of God with men » Everlasting
And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and he took from all the clean animals and from all the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said {to himself}, "{Never again will I curse} the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind [is] evil from his youth. {Nor will I ever again destroy} all life as I have done. {As long as the earth endures}, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease.
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. And fear of you and dread of you shall be upon every animal of the earth, and on every bird of heaven, [and] on everything that moves upon the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they shall be given. Every moving thing that lives shall be for you as food. As [I gave] the green plants to you, I have [now] given you everything. read more.
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}. And {your lifeblood} I will require; from {every animal} I will require it. And from the hand of humankind, from the hand of [each] man to his brother I will require the life of humankind. "[As for] the one shedding the blood of humankind, by humankind his blood shall be shed, for God made humankind in his own image. "And you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply in it." And God said to Noah and to his sons with him, "As for me, behold, I am establishing my covenant with you and with your seed after you, and with every living creature that [is] with you--the birds, the animals, and every animal of the earth with you, from all [that] came out of the ark to all the animals of the earth. I am establishing my covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, nor will there ever be a flood that destroys the earth." And God said, "This [is] the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you, and between every living creature that [is] with you for future generations. My bow I have set in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of [the] covenant between me and between the earth. And when I make clouds appear over the earth the bow shall be seen in the clouds. Then I will remember my covenant that [is] between me and you, and between every living creature, with all flesh. And the waters of a flood will never again {cause the destruction} of all flesh. The bow shall be in the clouds, and I will see it, so as to remember [the] everlasting covenant between God and between every living creature, with all flesh that [is] upon the earth." And God said to Noah, "This [is] the sign of the covenant which I am establishing between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth.
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}. And {your lifeblood} I will require; from {every animal} I will require it. And from the hand of humankind, from the hand of [each] man to his brother I will require the life of humankind. "[As for] the one shedding the blood of humankind, by humankind his blood shall be shed, for God made humankind in his own image. "And you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply in it." And God said to Noah and to his sons with him, "As for me, behold, I am establishing my covenant with you and with your seed after you, and with every living creature that [is] with you--the birds, the animals, and every animal of the earth with you, from all [that] came out of the ark to all the animals of the earth. I am establishing my covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, nor will there ever be a flood that destroys the earth." And God said, "This [is] the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you, and between every living creature that [is] with you for future generations. My bow I have set in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of [the] covenant between me and between the earth. And when I make clouds appear over the earth the bow shall be seen in the clouds. Then I will remember my covenant that [is] between me and you, and between every living creature, with all flesh. And the waters of a flood will never again {cause the destruction} of all flesh. The bow shall be in the clouds, and I will see it, so as to remember [the] everlasting covenant between God and between every living creature, with all flesh that [is] upon the earth." And God said to Noah, "This [is] the sign of the covenant which I am establishing between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth.
He remembers his covenant forever, [the] word [that] he commanded for a thousand generations,
He then confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, to Israel [as] an everlasting covenant,
For the mountains may depart, and the hills may sway, but my faithfulness shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not sway," says Yahweh, who has compassion on you,
For I, Yahweh, love justice, hate robbery and injustice, and I will {faithfully} give their reward, and I will {make} an everlasting covenant {with} them.
Flesh » The life of the flesh
Indeed the flesh's life [is] in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, because it [is] the blood with the life that makes atonement.
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
A heart of tranquility [is] life [to the] flesh, but causes bones of passion to rot.
Food » Kinds prohibited by mosaic law
So then, be careful and do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean,
However, these you may not eat from those that chew the cud and from those that have a divided hoof: the camel, because it [is] a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided--it [is] unclean for you;
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
He shall not eat a [naturally] dead body or a mangled carcass, {so that he becomes unclean} by it; I [am] Yahweh.
But Peter said, "Certainly not, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common and unclean!"
But {anything that does not have} fins and scales, you may not eat, [for] it [is] unclean for you.
She should not eat of anything that comes from the vine, or drink wine or strong drink, or eat anything unclean; she should keep all that I commanded."
Meat » Animals
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. And fear of you and dread of you shall be upon every animal of the earth, and on every bird of heaven, [and] on everything that moves upon the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they shall be given. Every moving thing that lives shall be for you as food. As [I gave] the green plants to you, I have [now] given you everything. read more.
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
Unclean » Physical food, kinds prohibited by mosaic law
So then, be careful and do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean,
However, these you may not eat from those that chew the cud and from those that have a divided hoof: the camel, because it [is] a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided--it [is] unclean for you;
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
He shall not eat a [naturally] dead body or a mangled carcass, {so that he becomes unclean} by it; I [am] Yahweh.
But Peter said, "Certainly not, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common and unclean!"
But {anything that does not have} fins and scales, you may not eat, [for] it [is] unclean for you.
She should not eat of anything that comes from the vine, or drink wine or strong drink, or eat anything unclean; she should keep all that I commanded."
Victuals » Kinds prohibited by mosaic law
So then, be careful and do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean,
However, these you may not eat from those that chew the cud and from those that have a divided hoof: the camel, because it [is] a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided--it [is] unclean for you;
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
He shall not eat a [naturally] dead body or a mangled carcass, {so that he becomes unclean} by it; I [am] Yahweh.
But Peter said, "Certainly not, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common and unclean!"
But {anything that does not have} fins and scales, you may not eat, [for] it [is] unclean for you.
She should not eat of anything that comes from the vine, or drink wine or strong drink, or eat anything unclean; she should keep all that I commanded."