Laws Against Eating Blood
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"If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them d eats any blood, I will e set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.
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f For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar g to make atonement for your souls, h for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.
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Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.
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"Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall i pour out its blood and j cover it with earth.
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For the life of every creature is its k blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.
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l And every person who eats what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, m whether he is a native or a sojourner, n shall wash his clothes and o bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.
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But if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, p he shall bear his iniquity."
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Cross References
Leviticus 3:17
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.
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Cross References
Leviticus 20:3
I myself will set my face against that man and ...
Leviticus 20:6
If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, ...
Leviticus 26:17
I will set my face against you, and you shall b...
Jeremiah 44:11
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God ...
Ezekiel 14:8
And I will set my face against that man; I will...
Ezekiel 15:7
And I will set my face against them. Though the...
Psalms 34:16
The face of the Lord is against those who do ev...
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Cross References
Leviticus 17:14
For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.
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Matthew 26:28
For this is my blood of the covenant, which is ...
Mark 14:24
And he said to them, "This is my blood of the c...
Romans 3:25
Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his b...
Romans 5:9
Since, therefore, we have now been justified by...
Ephesians 1:7
In him we have redemption through his blood, th...
Colossians 1:14
In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of ...
Colossians 1:20
And through him to reconcile to himself all thi...
Hebrews 13:12
So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in orde...
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the li...
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the...
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Cross References
Hebrews 9:22
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.
Deuteronomy 12:24
You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 24:7
For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.
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Cross References
Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.
Genesis 9:4
But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
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Leviticus 22:8
He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the Lord.
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Leviticus 16:29
And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you.
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Leviticus 11:25
And whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
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Leviticus 15:5
And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
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Numbers 19:20
If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.
Leviticus 5:1
If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity.
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