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.

¹¹ For the ^(A)life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar ^(B)to make atonement for your souls; for ^(C)it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’

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

¹³ “Whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who ^(A)hunts and catches any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall ^(B)pour out its blood and ^(C)cover it with dust; ^14 (D)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.’

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

¹⁶ and the priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma; ^(A)all the fat is the Lord’s.

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

⁹ And ^(A)they sang a new song, saying:

^28 (A)just as the ^(B)Son of Man did not come to be served, ^(C)but to serve, and ^(D)to give His life a ransom ^(E)for many.”