drinking blood
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11For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you, so that you may atone with it upon the altar for your souls, and so that the blood may be for an expiation of the soul.
20but instead that we write to them, that they should keep themselves from the defilement of idols, and from fornication, and from whatever has been suffocated, and from blood.
3And everything that moves and lives will be food for you. Just as with the edible plants, I have delivered them all to you, 4except that flesh with blood you shall not eat.
4except that flesh with blood you shall not eat.
14For the life of all flesh is in the blood. Therefore, I said to the sons of Israel: You shall not eat the blood of any flesh at all, because the life of the flesh is in the blood, and whoever has eaten it shall perish.
22And nearly everything, according to the law, is to be cleansed with blood. And without the shedding of blood, there is no remission.
10Any man at all of the house of Israel, or of the newcomers who sojourn among them, if he has eaten blood, I will harden my face against his soul, and I will drive him from his people.
29that you abstain from things immolated to idols, and from blood, and from what has been suffocated, and from fornication. You will do well to keep yourselves from these things. Farewell.”
1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John;
53Therefore, the Jews debated among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”