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
"'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"
Leviticus 7:26
You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 17:10
"'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.
Leviticus 19:26
"'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
Deuteronomy 14:21
You 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.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.
1 Samuel 14:34
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.
Acts 15:20
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
General references
Leviticus 17:14
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."
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.