²³ Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.

¹⁶ Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

²⁶ And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of bird or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

²³ Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.

³² and the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people did eat them with the blood.

²⁵ Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?