Blood: Forbidden to be Used As Food

But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”

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

If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.’”

If 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. …

You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.

…but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

Therefore 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?

Instead, 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.

You 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.

As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”