Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
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Bible References
The blood is
Genesis 9:4
But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.
Leviticus 3:16
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.
Leviticus 17:11
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.
Matthew 20:28
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Revelation 5:9
They were singing a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
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Leviticus 17:14
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.
Deuteronomy 12:16
However, you must not eat blood -- pour it out on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 15:23
However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.