Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

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Bible References

The life

Leviticus 3:17
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 7:26
And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of bird or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 17:10
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 19:26
Ye shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury.
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
Deuteronomy 14:21
Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.
1 Samuel 14:34
And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against Jehovah in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.
Acts 15:20
but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:

General references

Leviticus 17:14
For as to the life of all flesh, the blood thereof is all one with the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

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