Leviticus 7:26

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“You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.”

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BSBPD

“You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of bird or of beast, in any of your dwellings.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And any blood ye do not eat in all your dwellings, of fowl, or of beast;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Leviticus 7:26 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 9:4But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
  2. Exodus 22:30You shall do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.
  3. Leviticus 3:17This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
  4. Leviticus 17:10If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.
  5. 1 Samuel 14:33Then someone reported to Saul: “Look, the troops are sinning against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.” “You have broken faith,” said Saul. “Roll a large stone over here at once.”
  6. Ezekiel 33:25Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?
  7. John 6:53So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.
  8. Acts 15:20Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
  9. Acts 15:29You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
  10. Ephesians 1:7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
  11. 1 Timothy 4:4For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,

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