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The Jehovah's Witnesses are well known for their refusal to receive blood transfusions. This is based on their interpretation on a number of passages in the Bible. These include [[Genesis 9]]:3-4 where God commanded Noah and his family to not eat blood. Again in [[Leviticus 7:26]] and [[Deuteronomy 12:16]] this command is re-iterated. This command is reiterated again in the [[New Testament]]. In a list of things that Christians were forbidden to do, since there was confusion because the Law had been abolished, the disciples said that Christians were supposed to abstain from blood.-Acts 15:28, 29
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that this decleration applies to all forms of taking blood into the body because the Scripture in Acts does not so say that you cannot eat blood but that you must completely abstain from blood. They claim that taking a blood transfusion would not be abstaining from blood.
===Jehovah's Witnesses Today===
