Leviticus 3:17
“It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.”
And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the Lord’s.
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.”
“But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.”
“For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
“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.”
“But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.”