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Genesis 9:4
But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
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Jeremiah 7:9-10
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, offer sacrifices to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say,‘ We are saved!’— so that you may do all these abominations?
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Deuteronomy 12:16
Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
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Ezekiel 22:6
“ Behold, the rulers of Israel, each according to his power, have been among you for the purpose of shedding blood.
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Ezekiel 18:6
if he does not eat at the mountain shrines or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period—
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Ezekiel 22:27
Her leaders within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to make dishonest profit.
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Leviticus 3:17
It is a permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’ ”
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Leviticus 17:10-14
‘ And anyone from the house of Israel, or from the strangers who reside among them, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats the blood, and will cut him off from among his people.For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.’Therefore I said to the sons of Israel,‘ No person among you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who resides among you eat blood.’So when anyone from the sons of Israel, or from the strangers who reside among them, while hunting catches an animal or a bird which may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with dirt.“ For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel,‘ You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.’
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Ezekiel 18:12
oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, but raises his eyes to the idols and commits abomination,
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Leviticus 19:26
‘ You shall not eat any meat with the blood. You shall not practice divination nor soothsaying.
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Ezekiel 18:15
He does not eat at the mountain shrines or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; he has not defiled his neighbor’s wife,
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Deuteronomy 4:19
And be careful not to raise your eyes to heaven and look at the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the heavenly lights, and allow yourself to be drawn away and worship them and serve them, things which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
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Leviticus 7:26-27
And you are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.Any person who eats any blood, that person shall also be cut off from his people.’ ”
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Jeremiah 44:15-19
Then all the men who were aware that their wives were burning sacrifices to other gods, along with all the women who were standing by, as a large assembly, including all the people who were living in Pathros in the land of Egypt, responded to Jeremiah, saying,“ As for the message that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you!But we will certainly carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, by burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings, and our leaders did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food and were well off and saw no misfortune.But since we stopped burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything, and have met our end by the sword and by famine.”“ And,” said the women,“ when we were burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes in her image, and poured out drink offerings to her?”
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Ezekiel 22:9
Slanderous men have been among you for the purpose of shedding blood, and among you they have eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they have committed outrageous sin.
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Acts 15:20-21
but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols, from acts of sexual immorality, from what has been strangled, and from blood.For from ancient generations Moses has those who preach him in every city, since he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
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Ezekiel 9:9
Then He said to me,“ The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is full of perversion; for they say,‘ The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’
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Acts 21:25
But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we sent a letter, having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”
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1 Samuel 14 32-1 Samuel 14 34
So the people loudly rushed upon the spoils, and took sheep, oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.Then observers informed Saul, saying,“ Look, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating meat with the blood.” And he said,“ You have acted treacherously; roll a large rock to me today.”Then Saul said,“ Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them,‘ Each one of you bring me his ox or his sheep, and slaughter it here and eat; and do not sin against the Lord by eating it with the blood.’ ” So all the people brought them that night, each one his ox with him, and they slaughtered them there.
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Acts 15:29
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from acts of sexual immorality; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”
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Psalms 24:4
One who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to deceit And has not sworn deceitfully.