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

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

^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.

²⁶ Moreover, ^(A)you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.

²⁵ Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: ^(A)You eat flesh with the blood and ^(B)lift up your eyes to your idols and ^(C)shed blood; shall you then possess the land?

³² The people ^(A)pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them ^(B)with the blood.