Leviticus 17:14Bible in Basic English
For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.
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And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
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And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:15
And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.
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And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:
Genesis 2:17
But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.