Every creature that lives and moves will be food for you;(A) as I gave the green plants, I have given you everything.(B) However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.(C)

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Eating Blood and Carcasses Prohibited

10 “Anyone from the house of Israel or from the aliens who reside among them who eats any blood,(A) I will turn[a] against that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people. 11 For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have appointed it to you to make atonement on the altar for[b] your lives, since it is the lifeblood that makes atonement.(B) 12 Therefore I say to the Israelites: None of you and no alien who resides among you may eat blood.

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Footnotes

  1. 17:10 Lit will set my face
  2. 17:11 Or to ransom

16 but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.(A)

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23 But don’t eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.(A)

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