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BLOOD, Forbidden to be used as food

Genesis 9:4

4. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the BLOOD thereof, shall ye not eat.

Leviticus 3:17

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

Leviticus 7:26-27

26. Moreover ye shall eat no manner of BLOOD, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

27. Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of BLOOD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 17:10-14

10. And whatsoever man there 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.

11. 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.

12. Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat BLOOD, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat BLOOD.

13. And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the BLOOD thereof, and cover it with dust.

14. For it is the life of all flesh; the BLOOD of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the BLOOD of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the BLOOD thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

Leviticus 19:26

26. Ye shall not eat any thing with the BLOOD: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

Deuteronomy 12:16-23

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

17. Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:

18. But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.

19. Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.

20. When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

21. If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

22. Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

23. 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.

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