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Want to know what the Bible says about Eating Animal Blood? Here are 52 Bible verses about Eating Animal Blood from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Leviticus 17:14 NIV
because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, “You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.”
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Genesis 9:4 NIV
“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
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Acts 15:20 NIV
Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.
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Leviticus 3:17 NIV
“‘This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood. ’”
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Deuteronomy 12:23 NIV
But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
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Acts 15:29 NIV
You are to 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.
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Leviticus 17:10 NIV
“‘I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood, and I will cut them off from the people.
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Mark 7:18-19 NIV
18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
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Deuteronomy 12:16 NIV
But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
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Mark 7:14-15 NIV
14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”
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Leviticus 17:11 NIV
For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.
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Genesis 9:3 NIV
Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
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Genesis 1:29 NIV
Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
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Deuteronomy 14:21 NIV
Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the Lord your God.
Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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1 Corinthians 10:31 NIV
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
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Luke 11:11-13 NIV
11 “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
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Leviticus 7:23 NIV
“Say to the Israelites: ‘Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats.
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Leviticus 19:26 NIV
“‘Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it.
“‘Do not practice divination or seek omens.
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Leviticus 11:2 NIV
“Say to the Israelites: ‘Of all the animals that live on land, these are the ones you may eat:
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Romans 14:21 NIV
It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.
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