²³ Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

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

²⁶ And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.

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.

³² And rushing at the goods taken in the fight, the people took oxen and sheep and young oxen, and put them to death there on the earth, and had a meal, taking the flesh with the blood in it.

²⁵ For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?