Blood Shall

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the Blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

• Image

Whoso sheddeth man's Blood, by man shall his Blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become Blood upon the dry land.

Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to Blood.

And they shall take of the Blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

And the Blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the Blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the Blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the Blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.

If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no Blood be shed for him.

• Servant

If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be Blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

• Offerings

Thou shalt not offer the Blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

• Blood

And thou shalt take of the Blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

• Atonement
• Blood

And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the Blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.

• Offerings

Thou shalt not offer the Blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.

• Blood

And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the Blood, and sprinkle the Blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

• Blood

And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his Blood round about upon the altar.

• Blood

And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the Blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:

• Blood
• Offerings

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the Blood upon the altar round about.

• Blood

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the Blood thereof round about upon the altar.

• Blood
• Priest

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the Blood thereof upon the altar round about.

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor Blood.

And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's Blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:

• Seven

And the priest shall dip his finger in the Blood, and sprinkle of the Blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary.

• Altar
• Blood

And the priest shall put some of the Blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the Blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's Blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:

• Blood
• Priest

And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the Blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail.

• Altar
• Blood

And he shall put some of the Blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the Blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

• Blood

And the priest shall take of the Blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his Blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.

• Blood

And the priest shall take of the Blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the Blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.

And the priest shall take of the Blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the Blood thereof at the bottom of the altar:

• Blood

And he shall sprinkle of the Blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the Blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.

Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the Blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.

And no sin offering, whereof any of the Blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.

• Blood

In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the Blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.

And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the Blood of the peace offerings.

Moreover ye shall eat no manner of Blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of Blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the Blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.

And she shall then continue in the Blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.

But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the Blood of her purifying threescore and six days.

Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her Blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.

• Cedar

As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the Blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:

And the priest shall take some of the Blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:

• Blood

And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the Blood of the trespass offering:

And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the Blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:

• Blood

And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the Blood of the trespass offering:

And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the Blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:

And he shall cleanse the house with the Blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:

And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be Blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.

And if a woman have an issue of her Blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.

And he shall take of the Blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the Blood with his finger seven times.

Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his Blood within the vail, and do with that Blood as he did with the Blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:

• Altar

And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the Blood of the bullock, and of the Blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.

And he shall sprinkle of the Blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

• Blood

And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose Blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.

• Offerings

And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; Blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed Blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

And the priest shall sprinkle the Blood upon the altar of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat Blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat Blood.

And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the Blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

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.

Ye shall not eat any thing with the Blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

• Blood
• Punishment

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his Blood shall be upon him.

And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their Blood shall be upon them.

And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their Blood shall be upon them.

• Uncleanness
• Abomination
• Punishment

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their Blood shall be upon them.

And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their Blood shall be upon them.

And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her Blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

• Punishment

A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their Blood shall be upon them.

And Eleazar the priest shall take of her Blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her Blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:

And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her Blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the Blood of the slain.

The revenger of Blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of Blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.

Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of Blood according to these judgments:

• Anointing

And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of Blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.

And the revenger of Blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of Blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of Blood:

So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for Blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the Blood that is shed therein, but by the Blood of him that shed it. Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.

Only ye shall not eat the Blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

• Blood

And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the Blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the Blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between Blood and Blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

• Government

Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of Blood, that he may die.

Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent Blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this Blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent Blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the Blood shall be forgiven them.

I will make mine arrows drunk with Blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the Blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his Blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his Blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.

That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of Blood.

And if the avenger of Blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.

That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed Blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his Blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of Blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

And the LORD shall return his Blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

Their Blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.

For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy Blood shall be upon thine own head.

• Dog

And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the Blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy Blood, even thine.

And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the Blood of the burnt offering, and all the Blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to inquire by.

And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the Blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.

And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between Blood and Blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.

• Idolatry

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of Blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

What profit is there in my Blood, when I go down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

• Blood

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the Blood of the wicked.

• Deceit

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their Blood be in his sight.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for Blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

A man that doeth violence to the Blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

• Purifying
• Washing

When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the Blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in Blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

• Lion

For the waters of Dimon shall be full of Blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her Blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their Blood.

• Unicorn

And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with Blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own Blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

• Art
• Power

I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their Blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent Blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their Blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my Blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his Blood will I require at thine hand.

• Stumbling-block
• Stumbling

Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his Blood will I require at thine hand.

So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and Blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

• Blood

Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his Blood shall be upon him.

Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy Blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.

And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed Blood; because they are adulteresses, and Blood is in their hands.

For I will send into her pestilence, and Blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

I will also water with thy Blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.

Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his Blood shall be upon his own head.

He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his Blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.

When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his Blood will I require at thine hand.

Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the Blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed Blood: and shall ye possess the land?

• Blood

Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto Blood, and Blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated Blood, even Blood shall pursue thee.

Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the Blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink Blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

• Blood

And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle Blood thereon.

But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the Blood, saith the Lord GOD:

And the priest shall take of the Blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.

Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his Blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

• Sun

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into Blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent Blood in their land.

Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's Blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's Blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their Blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

• Idolatry

And I will take away his Blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

From the Blood of Abel unto the Blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.

• Sun

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into Blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:

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.

Much more then, being now justified by his Blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

• Sacrilege

Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and Blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

How much more shall the Blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

• Types

Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the Blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?