Leviticus 7:26 “You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwelli…”

Leviticus 7:26

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Neither shall ye eate any blood, either of foule, or of beast in all your dwellings.

Darby Translation

And no blood shall ye eat in any of your dwellings, whether it be of fowl or of cattle.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.

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Cross references

“ye shall eat”

Genesis 9:4 Leviticus 3:17 Leviticus 17:10–14 Acts 15:20 Ezekiel 33:25 John 6:53

Genesis 9:4 · BSB

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

Leviticus 3:17 · BSB

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

Leviticus 17:10–14 · BSB

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.

Acts 15:20 · BSB

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.

Ezekiel 33:25 · BSB

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?

John 6:53 · BSB

So 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

25If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering may be presented to the LORD, the one who eats it must be cut off from his people.

27If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.’”

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