Acts 15:20 References

20 but that we write to them that they abstain from athings contaminated by idols and from bfornication and from cwhat is strangled and from blood.

c Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 3:17, Leviticus 7:26, Leviticus 17:10, Leviticus 17:14, Leviticus 19:26, Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 12:23, Deuteronomy 15:23, 1 Samuel 14:33


Genesis 9

4 "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, aits blood.

Leviticus 3

17 'It is a aperpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat bor any blood.'"

Leviticus 7

26 'aYou are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.

Leviticus 17

10 'aAnd any man from the house of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, who eats any blood, bI will set My face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 17

14 "aFor as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, 'You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.'

Leviticus 19

26 'You shall not eat anything awith the blood, nor practice bdivination or soothsaying.

Deuteronomy 12

16 "aOnly you shall not eat the blood; byou are to pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12

23 "Only be sure anot to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 15

23 "Only ayou shall not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

1 Samuel 14

33 Then they told Saul, saying, "Behold, the people are asinning against the Lord by eating with the blood." And he said, "You have acted treacherously; roll a great stone to me today."