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Genesis 9:4
However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.
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Jeremiah 7:9-10
“‘ Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?Then do you come and stand before me in this house that bears my name and say,“ We are rescued, so we can continue doing all these detestable acts”?
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Deuteronomy 12:16
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
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Ezekiel 22:6
“‘ Look, every prince of Israel within you has used his strength to shed blood.
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Ezekiel 18:6
He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual impurity.
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Ezekiel 22:27
“ Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.
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Leviticus 3:17
This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”
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Leviticus 17:10-14
“ Anyone from the house of Israel or from the aliens who reside among them who eats any blood, I will turn against that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people.For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have appointed it to you to make atonement on the altar for your lives, since it is the lifeblood that makes atonement.Therefore I say to the Israelites: None of you and no alien who resides among you may eat blood.“ Any Israelite or alien residing among them, who hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.Since the life of every creature is its blood, I have told the Israelites: You are not to eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.
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Ezekiel 18:12
and when he oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, and does not return collateral, and when he looks to the idols, commits detestable acts,
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Leviticus 19:26
“ You are not to eat anything with blood in it. You are not to practice divination or witchcraft.
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Ezekiel 18:15
He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.
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Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars— all the stars in the sky— do not be led astray to bow in worship to them and serve them. The LORD your God has provided them for all people everywhere under heaven.
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Leviticus 7:26-27
Wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.Whoever eats any blood is to be cut off from his people.”
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Jeremiah 44:15-19
However, all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, all the women standing by— a great assembly— and all the people who were living in the land of Egypt at Pathros answered Jeremiah,“ As for the word you spoke to us in the name of the LORD, we are not going to listen to you!Instead, we will do everything we promised: we will burn incense to the queen of heaven and offer drink offerings to her just as we, our ancestors, our kings, and our officials did in Judah’s cities and in Jerusalem’s streets. Then we had enough food, we were well off, and we saw no disaster,but from the time we ceased to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to offer her drink offerings, we have lacked everything, and through sword and famine we have met our end.”And the women said,“ When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it apart from our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
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Ezekiel 22:9
There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood. People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines; they commit depraved acts within you.
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Acts 15:20-21
but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.For since ancient times, Moses has had those who proclaim him in every city, and every Sabbath day he is read aloud in the synagogues.”
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Ezekiel 9:9
He answered me,“ The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity. For they say,‘ The LORD has abandoned the land; he does not see.’
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Acts 21:25
With regard to the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter containing our decision that they should keep themselves from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”
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1 Samuel 14 32-1 Samuel 14 34
they rushed to the plunder, took sheep, goats, cattle, and calves, slaughtered them on the ground, and ate meat with the blood still in it.Some reported to Saul,“ Look, the troops are sinning against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.” Saul said,“ You have been unfaithful. Roll a large stone over here at once.”He then said,“ Go among the troops and say to them,‘ Let each man bring me his ox or his sheep. Do the slaughtering here and then you can eat. Don’t sin against the LORD by eating meat with the blood in it.’” So every one of the troops brought his ox that night and slaughtered it there.
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Acts 15:29
that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things. Farewell.”
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Psalms 24:4
The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not appealed to what is false, and who has not sworn deceitfully.