Blood should not be consumed - Key Passages
Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that lives shall be yours to eat; like the green vegetation, I have given you everything. 4 But, flesh with its soul, its blood, you shall not eat. Leviticus 7:26 And you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwelling places , whether from birds or from animals. 25 For anyone who eats fat of animals from which sacrifices are brought as fire offerings to the Lord, the soul who eats [it] shall be cut off from its people. Leviticus 17:10 If anyone of the house of Israel or of the aliens who reside among them eats any blood , I will set my face against that person who eats blood, and will cut that person off from the people. 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you for making atonement for your lives on the altar; for, as life, it is the blood that makes atonement. 12 Therefore I have said to the people of Israel: No person among you shall eat blood, nor any alien who resides among you eat blood. 13 And any one of the p...