Leviticus 3:17
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17 This shall be a perpetual ordinance for your descendants wherever they may dwell. You shall not eat any fat or any blood.[a](A)
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Leviticus 7:26-27
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26 (A)Wherever you dwell, you shall not eat any blood, whether of bird or of animal. 27 Every person who eats any blood shall be cut off from the people.
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Genesis 9:4
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4 (A)Only meat with its lifeblood still in it you shall not eat.[a]
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- 9:4 Because a living being dies when it loses most of its blood, the ancients regarded blood as the seat of life, and therefore as sacred. Jewish tradition considered the prohibition against eating meat with blood to be binding on all, because it was given by God to Noah, the new ancestor of all humankind; therefore the early Christian Church retained it for a time (Acts 15:20, 29).
Deuteronomy 12:16
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16 [a]Only, you shall not eat of the blood, but must pour it out on the ground like water.(A)
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Deuteronomy 12:23-24
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23 (A)But make sure that you do not eat of the blood; for blood is life; you shall not eat that life with the flesh. 24 Do not eat of the blood, therefore, but pour it out on the ground like water.
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