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

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

^23 (A)Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

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

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

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

Laws Against Eating Blood

¹⁰ “If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them ^(A)eats any blood, I will ^(B)set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. ^11 (C)For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar ^(D)to make atonement for your souls, ^(E)for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life. ¹² Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.

¹³ “Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall ^(F)pour out its blood and ^(G)cover it with earth.

²⁶ Moreover, ^(A)you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places. ²⁷ Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”