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26 Moreover, you are not to eat any blood [of any kind], whether of bird or animal, in any of your dwelling places.

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20 but that we write to them that they are to abstain from [a]anything that has been contaminated by [being offered to] idols and from sexual impurity and from [eating the meat of] what has been strangled and from [the consumption of] [b]blood.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 15:20 Lit the pollutions of idols.
  2. Acts 15:20 For the OT prohibition against eating blood, and the reasons for it, see Lev 17:10-14. There, in v 13, hunters are instructed to pour out the blood of an animal before eating it.

25 But with regard to the Gentiles who have believed [in Christ], we have sent them a letter with our decision that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from [consuming] blood and from [the meat of] what has been strangled and from sexual immorality.”

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