²³ But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

¹¹ For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.

⁴ But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

¹³ And any man of Israel, or any other living among them, who gets with his bow any beast or bird used for food, is to see that its blood is covered with earth.

¹⁴ For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.

¹⁶ That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet smell: all the fat is the Lord's.

¹⁷ Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.

¹⁶ But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.