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

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

^26 (A)Moreover you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, whether of bird or beast.

²⁷ Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.’ ”

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

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. ²⁴ You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth like water. ²⁵ You shall not eat it, ^(B)that it may go well with you and your children after you, ^(C)when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.

²³ Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water.

³³ Then they told Saul, saying, “Look, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood!”

So he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a large stone to me this day.”