Leviticus 17:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² Therefore I have said to the children of Israel: No soul of you, nor of the strangers that sojourn among you, shall eat blood.

¹³ Any man whosoever of the children of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn among you, if by hunting or fowling, he take a wild beast or a bird, which is lawful to eat, let him pour out its blood, and cover it with earth.

¹⁴ For the life of all flesh is in the blood: therefore I said to the children of Israel: You shall not eat the blood of any flesh at all, because the life of the flesh is in the blood, and whosoever eateth it, shall be cut off.