Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land? Cross References Leviticus 17:10 If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people. Leviticus 17:12 Therefore I say to the Israelites, 'None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.' Deuteronomy 12:16 but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water. Deuteronomy 12:23 Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. Deuteronomy 15:23 But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water. Jeremiah 7:9 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, Jeremiah 7:10 and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, 'We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations'? Jeremiah 7:21 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! Ezekiel 18:6 He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman during her period. Treasury of Scripture Why say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land? Ye eat Genesis 9:4 Leviticus 3:17 Leviticus 7:26,27 lift up Ezekiel 18:6,12,15 Deuteronomy 4:19 Psalm 24:4 and shed Ezekiel 9:9 Ezekiel 22:6,9,27 shall ye Jeremiah 7:9,10 |