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

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

²⁶ You must not eat any blood whatever, either of bird or of animal, in any of your settlements.^(A)

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

³² so the troops flew upon the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground, and the troops ate them with the blood.^(A)