¹⁶ The blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.^(A)

²³ Its blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.^(A)

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

²⁹ that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled^[a] and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”^(A)

⁴ For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving,^(A)

²³ Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.^{(A) 24} Do not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Eating Blood Prohibited

¹⁰ “If anyone of the house of Israel or of the aliens who reside among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut that person off from the people.^{(A) 11} For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you for making atonement for your lives on the altar, for, as life, it is the blood that makes atonement.^{(B) 12} Therefore I have said to the Israelites, ‘No person among you shall eat blood, nor shall any alien who resides among you eat blood.’

¹³ “And anyone of the Israelites or of the aliens who reside among them who hunts down an animal or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.^(C)

²⁶ You must not eat any blood whatever, either of bird or of animal, in any of your settlements.^{(A) 27} Any one of you who eats any blood shall be cut off from your people.”