26 Moreover, (A)you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.

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26 And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood(A) of any bird or animal.

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Laws Against Eating Blood

10 “If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them (A)eats any blood, I will (B)set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.

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10 “‘I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood,(A) and I will cut them off from the people.

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14 For the life of every creature[a] is its (A)blood: its blood is its life.[b] 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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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 17:14 Hebrew all flesh
  2. Leviticus 17:14 Hebrew it is in its life

14 because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, “You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.”(A)

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26 (A)“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. (B)You shall not interpret omens or (C)tell fortunes.

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26 “‘Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it.(A)

“‘Do not practice divination(B) or seek omens.(C)

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But you shall not eat flesh with its (A)life, that is, its blood.

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“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.(A)

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16 (A)Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

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16 But you must not eat the blood;(A) pour(B) it out on the ground like water.(C)

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23 (A)Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, (B)for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

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23 But be sure you do not eat the blood,(A) because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.(B)

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23 (A)Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

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23 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.(A)

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33 Then they told Saul, “Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating (A)with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 14:33 Septuagint; Hebrew this day

33 Then someone said to Saul, “Look, the men are sinning against the Lord by eating meat that has blood(A) in it.”

“You have broken faith,” he said. “Roll a large stone over here at once.”

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20 but should write to them (A)to abstain from (B)the things polluted by idols, and from (C)sexual immorality, and from (D)what has been strangled, and from (E)blood.

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20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols,(A) from sexual immorality,(B) from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.(C)

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29 (A)that you abstain from (B)what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

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29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.(A) You will do well to avoid these things.

Farewell.

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