BLOOD

Passages on this topic · 161

• Genesis 9:4

  But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

• Exodus 7:17

  Yahweh says, “In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

• Exodus 7:18

  The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.”’”

• Exodus 7:19

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

• Exodus 7:20

  Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

• Exodus 7:21

  The fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 7:22

  The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments; and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

• Exodus 7:23

  Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.

• Exodus 7:24

  All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn’t drink the river water.

• Exodus 7:25

  Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river.

• Exodus 12:7

  They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

• Exodus 12:8

  They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

• Exodus 12:9

  Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

• Exodus 12:10

  You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

• Exodus 12:11

  This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.

• Exodus 12:12

  For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.

• Exodus 12:13

  The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 12:14

  This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

• Exodus 12:15

  “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

• Exodus 12:16

  In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

• Exodus 12:17

  You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

• Exodus 12:18

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.

• Exodus 12:19

  There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

• Exodus 12:20

  You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’”

• Exodus 12:21

  Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.

• Exodus 12:22

  You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

• Exodus 12:23

  For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

• Exodus 24:6

  Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

• Exodus 24:7

  He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient.”

• Exodus 24:8

  Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

• Exodus 29:2

  unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.

• Exodus 29:12

  You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

• Exodus 29:16

  You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.

• Exodus 29:21

  You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

• Exodus 30:10

  Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.”

• Leviticus 1:5

  He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

• Leviticus 1:11

  He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

• Leviticus 1:15

  The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar;

• Leviticus 3:2

  He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.

• Leviticus 3:8

  and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

• Leviticus 3:13

  and he shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

• Leviticus 3:17

  “‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”

• Leviticus 4:5

  The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting.

• Leviticus 4:6

  The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the veil of the sanctuary.

• Leviticus 4:7

  The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out all of rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

• Leviticus 4:17

  and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil.

• Leviticus 4:18

  He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

• Leviticus 4:25

  The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.

• Leviticus 4:30

  The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

• Leviticus 5:9

  He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 7:2

  In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar.

• Leviticus 7:26

  You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.

• Leviticus 7:27

  Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”

• Leviticus 8:15

  He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.

• Leviticus 8:19

  He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

• Leviticus 8:23

  He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

• Leviticus 8:24

  He brought Aaron’s sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

• Leviticus 8:30

  Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

• Leviticus 9:9

  The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar:

• Leviticus 9:12

  He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.

• Leviticus 9:18

  He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron’s sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar,

• Leviticus 14:6

  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.

• Leviticus 14:7

  He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.

• Leviticus 14:17

  The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.

• Leviticus 14:28

  Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.

• Leviticus 14:51

  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.

• Leviticus 14:52

  He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;

• Leviticus 16:14

  He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

• Leviticus 16:15

  “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat.

• Leviticus 16:18

  “He shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar.

• Leviticus 16:19

  He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

• Leviticus 16:27

  The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.

• Leviticus 17:10

  “‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

• Leviticus 17:11

  For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

• Leviticus 17:12

  Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No person among you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.”

• Leviticus 17:13

  “‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

• Leviticus 17:14

  For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”

• Leviticus 19:16

  “‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 19:26

  “‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.

• Leviticus 20:9

  “‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

• Deuteronomy 12:16

  Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

• Deuteronomy 12:23

  Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.

• Deuteronomy 12:27

  You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on Yahweh your God’s altar; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on Yahweh your God’s altar; and you shall eat the meat.

• Deuteronomy 15:23

  Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.

• 2 Samuel 1:16

  David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’”

• Psalms 58:10

  The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;

• Psalms 78:44

  he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

• Psalms 105:29

  He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

• Ezekiel 16:38

  I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

• Ezekiel 18:13

  has lent on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood shall be on him.

• Ezekiel 33:25

  Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?

• Ezekiel 35:6

  therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

• Ezekiel 43:18

  He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it.

• Ezekiel 43:20

  You shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around: thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

• Habakkuk 2:12

  Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

• Matthew 26:28

  for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

• Matthew 27:4

  saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

• Matthew 27:24

  So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

• Mark 14:24

  He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

• Luke 22:20

  Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

• John 6:53

  Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.

• John 6:54

  He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

• John 6:55

  For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

• John 6:56

  He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

• John 19:34

  However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

• Acts 15:20

  but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

• Acts 15:29

  that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

• Acts 20:28

  Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

• Acts 21:25

  But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”

• Romans 3:24

  being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

• Romans 3:25

  whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

• Romans 5:9

  Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

• 1 Corinthians 10:16

  The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

• 1 Corinthians 11:25

  In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”

• Ephesians 1:7

  in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

• Ephesians 2:13

  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

• Ephesians 2:16

  and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.

• Colossians 1:14

  in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;

• Colossians 1:20

  and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

• Hebrews 9:6

  Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,

• Hebrews 9:7

  but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

• Hebrews 9:8

  The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;

• Hebrews 9:9

  which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect;

• Hebrews 9:10

  being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

• Hebrews 9:11

  But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

• Hebrews 9:12

  nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

• Hebrews 9:13

  For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:

• Hebrews 9:14

  how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

• Hebrews 9:15

  For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

• Hebrews 9:16

  For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.

• Hebrews 9:17

  For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.

• Hebrews 9:18

  Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

• Hebrews 9:19

  For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

• Hebrews 9:20

  saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”

• Hebrews 9:21

  Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.

• Hebrews 9:22

  According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

• Hebrews 9:23

  It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

• Hebrews 9:24

  For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

• Hebrews 9:25

  nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,

• Hebrews 9:26

  or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

• Hebrews 9:27

  Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

• Hebrews 9:28

  so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

• Hebrews 10:19

  Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

• Hebrews 10:20

  by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

• Hebrews 10:29

  How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

• Hebrews 11:28

  By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

• Hebrews 12:24

  to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

• Hebrews 13:12

  Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

• Hebrews 13:20

  Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

• 1 Peter 1:2

  according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

• 1 Peter 1:18

  knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

• 1 Peter 1:19

  but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ;

• 1 John 1:7

  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

• 1 John 5:6

  This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

• 1 John 5:8

  the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one.

• Revelation 1:5

  and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

• Revelation 1:6

  and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

• Revelation 5:9

  They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

• Revelation 7:14

  I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

• Revelation 12:11

  They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

• Revelation 16:6

  For they poured out the blood of the saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”