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What does the Bible say about eating animal blood?

16 verses about eating animal blood, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about eating animal blood

  1. Genesis 9:4 — But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. 4 votes
  2. Genesis 1:29 — And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 3 votes
  3. Leviticus 3:17 — It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood. 3 votes
  4. Leviticus 17:10 — And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 3 votes
  5. Leviticus 17:14 — For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. 3 votes
  6. Deuteronomy 12:16 — Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. 3 votes
  7. Acts 15:20 — But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. 3 votes
  8. Acts 15:29 — That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. 3 votes
  9. Genesis 9:3 — Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 2 votes
  10. Leviticus 17:11 — For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 2 votes
  11. Deuteronomy 12:23 — Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. 2 votes
  12. Deuteronomy 14:21 — Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk. 2 votes
  13. Mark 7:18 — And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; 2 votes
  14. 1 Corinthians 10:1 — Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 votes
  15. 1 Corinthians 10:31 — Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 2 votes
  16. Revelation 1:1 — The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 2 votes

Where these verses are

Leviticus (4), Genesis (3), Deuteronomy (3), Acts (2), 1 Corinthians (2), Mark (1), Revelation (1)

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Topical Bible data by OpenBible.info (https://www.openbible.info/topics/), CC BY 4.0. Votes reflect how many readers judged each verse relevant; they are not a doctrinal ranking. Verse text: King James Version.