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Blood is the Life Genesis 9:4

But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

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Blood is the Life Leviticus 17:11, 14

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul. / For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.’

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Blood is the Life Leviticus 19:16

You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.

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Blood is the Life Deuteronomy 12:23

Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

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Blood is the Life Matthew 27:4, 24

“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.” / When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”

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