³² And the people rushed on the ^[a]spoil, and took sheep, oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate them ^(A)with the blood.

¹⁹ Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the ^[a]spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?”

¹⁷ ‘This shall be a ^(A)perpetual^[a] statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor ^(B)blood.’ ”

^16 (A)Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

²⁶ ‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying.

^10 (A)‘And whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who eats any blood, ^(B)I will set My face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. ¹¹ For the ^(C)life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar ^(D)to make atonement for your souls; for ^(E)it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’ ¹² Therefore I said to the children of Israel, ‘No one among you shall eat blood, nor shall any stranger who dwells among you eat blood.’

¹³ “Whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who ^(F)hunts and catches any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall ^(G)pour out its blood and ^(H)cover it with dust; ^14 (I)for it is the life of all flesh. Its blood sustains its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, ‘You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.’

^4 (A)But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

²⁰ but that we ^(A)write to them to abstain ^(B)from things polluted by idols, ^(C)from ^[a]sexual immorality, ^(D)from things strangled, and from blood.

²³ Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, ^(A)for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life with the meat. ²⁴ You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth like water.