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Summary

Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

Bible References

Ye shall eat

Leviticus 3:17
This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.'"
Leviticus 17:10
"'Any man from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside in their midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people,
Genesis 9:4
But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.
1 Samuel 14:33
Now it was reported to Saul, "Look, the army is sinning against the Lord by eating even the blood." He said, "All of you have broken the covenant! Roll a large stone over here to me."
Ezekiel 33:25
Therefore say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, pray to your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess the land?
John 6:53
Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.
Acts 15:20
but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
Ephesians 1:7
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
1 Timothy 4:4
For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.

General references

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.

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