Primary Verses:

1. Genesis 9:4

   • "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat."

2. Leviticus 3:17

   • "It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood."

3. Leviticus 7:26-27

   • "Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.  Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people."

4. Leviticus 17:10-14

   • "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.  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.  Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.  And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.  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."

5. Leviticus 19:26

   • "Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times."

6. Deuteronomy 12:16

   • "Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water."

7. Deuteronomy 12:23-25

   • "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.  Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.  Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of YHVH."

8. Deuteronomy 15:23

   • "Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water."

Supporting Verses:

9. 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."

10. 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."

11. Acts 21:25

    • "As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication."