3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things. 4 But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it. 5 And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
Genesis 9:3–5
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Deuteronomy 12:22–24
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Book of Jubilees 7:31–33
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Book of Jubilees 7:27–29
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Book of Jubilees 21:17–19
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Leviticus 7:26–28
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