Leviticus 17:14NET Bible
for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood--all who eat it will be cut off.
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And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food." It was so.
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The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
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The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)
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but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die."
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