Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
The life
General references
Bible References
The life
Leviticus 3:17
Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.
Leviticus 7:26
And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.
Leviticus 17:10
And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.
Leviticus 19:26
Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.
Deuteronomy 12:16
But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.
Deuteronomy 14:21
You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
1 Samuel 14:34
And Saul said, Go about among the people and say to them, Let every man come here to me with his ox and his sheep, and put them to death here, and take his meal: do no sin against the Lord by taking the blood with the flesh. So all the people took their oxen with them that night and put them to death there.
Acts 15:20
But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.
1 Timothy 4:4
Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:
General references
Leviticus 17:14
For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.
Deuteronomy 12:16
But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.