Awake!, “He ‘Remembered His Creator in the Days of His Youth’”
“No wonder Jehovah God, the Creator of this miraculous fluid, declares that ‘the life is in the blood.’”
A box describing the composition of blood — red cells, white cells, platelets and plasma — and grounding the prohibition in Leviticus 17:11, 14. The four components it names are the four that the organisation reclassified as personal decisions on 18 September 2026.
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Provenance and verification note for Awake!, He ‘Remembered His Creator in the Days of His Youth’
Confidence note. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the wording, page marker and paragraph confirmed against the article text.
Corroborated by. src-jw-2026-0918-qfr-respect-life
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-g94d-life-is-in-the-blood-box