Bible Verses About Eating Animal Blood
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for eating animal blood, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 41,650 votes, led by Genesis 9:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Eating Animal Blood
Genesis 9:41,672 votes
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Leviticus 17:141,367 votes
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.
Acts 15:201,324 votes
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:291,273 votes
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.
Leviticus 3:171,145 votes
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 17:101,109 votes
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.
Deuteronomy 12:161,093 votes
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Genesis 1:291,062 votes
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.
Deuteronomy 12:231,018 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 10:31867 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Mark 7:18-19855 votes
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;
Deuteronomy 14:21748 votes
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.
Revelation 1:1726 votes
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:
1 Corinthians 10:1-33694 votes
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;
Leviticus 17:11687 votes
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.
Genesis 9:3666 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Mark 7:14-15622 votes
And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
Leviticus 7:26589 votes
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Luke 11:11-13561 votes
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
Mark 7:19556 votes
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Romans 14:1-23540 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Leviticus 11:2483 votes
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
Leviticus 7:23482 votes
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
Leviticus 11:1-47481 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
Hebrews 9:22469 votes
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
What does the Bible say about eating animal blood?
Readers most often cite Genesis 9:4 on the subject of eating animal blood. Across 41,650 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 17:14, Acts 15:20, Acts 15:29. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.