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

¹⁰ ‘^(A)And any man from the house of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, who eats any blood, ^(B)I will set My face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. ¹¹ For ^(C)the ^[a]life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for ^(D)it is the blood by reason of the ^[b]life that makes atonement.’ ¹² Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘No person among you may eat blood, nor may any alien who sojourns among you eat blood.’ ¹³ So when any man from the sons of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, ^[c]in hunting catches a beast or a bird which may be eaten, ^(E)he shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.

¹⁴ “^(F)For as for the ^[d]life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its ^[e]life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the ^[f]life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.’ ^15 (G)When any person eats an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or an alien, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and remain unclean until evening; then he will become clean. ¹⁶ But if he does not wash them or bathe his body, then ^(H)he shall bear his ^[g]guilt.”

²⁶ ‘You shall not eat anything ^(A)with the blood, nor practice ^(B)divination or soothsaying.

²³ Only be sure ^(A)not to eat the blood, for the blood is the ^[a]life, and you shall not eat the ^[b]life with the flesh.

³³ Then they told Saul, saying, “Behold, the people are ^(A)sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have acted treacherously; roll a great stone to me today.”

²⁰ but that we write to them that they abstain from ^[a](A)things contaminated by idols and from ^(B)fornication and from ^(C)what is strangled and from blood.