Why we (INC) don't eat blood?


Blood and Food offered to idols


Leviticus 3:17

" 'This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.' "

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Leviticus 7:26

And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
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Leviticus 17:12

Therefore I say to the Israelites, "None of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood."

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Leviticus 17:14

because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, "You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off."



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1 Corinthians 8:4

So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one.
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1 Corinthians 8:7

But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.