But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.
but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.
Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.
that you abstain from 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.”
“If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats 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 for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood. “Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth. For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. 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.
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
Then they told Saul, “Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.” And Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, ‘Let every man bring his ox or his sheep and slaughter them here and eat, and do not sin against the Lord by eating with the blood.’” So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night and they slaughtered them there.
“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.
it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
“You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
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