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Genesis 9:4
But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
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Jeremiah 7:9-10
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after 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 delivered;’ that you may do all these abominations?
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Deuteronomy 12:16
Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
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Ezekiel 22:6
“‘“ Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
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Ezekiel 18:6
and has not eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife, hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity,
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Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
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Leviticus 3:17
“‘ It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”
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Leviticus 17:10-14
“‘ Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.Therefore I have said to the children of Israel,“ No person among you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.”“‘ Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel,“ You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”
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Ezekiel 18:12
has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
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Leviticus 19:26
“‘ You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
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Ezekiel 18:15
who hasn’t eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife,
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Deuteronomy 4:19
and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
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Leviticus 7:26-27
You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”
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Jeremiah 44:15-19
Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,“ As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.“ When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?”
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Ezekiel 22:9
Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
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Acts 15:20-21
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
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Ezekiel 9:9
Then he said to me,“ The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say,‘ Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’
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Acts 21:25
But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”
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1 Samuel 14 32-1 Samuel 14 34
and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.Then they told Saul, saying,“ Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood.” He said,“ You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me today!”Saul said,“ Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them,‘ Every man bring me here his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don’t sin against Yahweh in eating meat with the blood.’” All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.
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Acts 15:29
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
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Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.