Thematic Bible: Forbidden to be used as food


Thematic Bible




Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

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.

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

Moreover, ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. Whatever soul it may be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

And whatever man there may be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. read more.
And whatever man there may be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, who hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out its blood, and cover it with dust. For it is the life of all flesh, the blood of it is for the life of it; therefore I said to the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is its blood: whoever eateth it shall be cut off.


Only thou shalt not eat its blood; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

Wherefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes towards your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?


That ye abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from lewdness: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye will do well. Fare ye well.

As concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from lewdness.