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

²⁹ To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

²⁰ But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

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.

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

¹⁰ And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.

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.

¹² For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as 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.

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

²⁶ Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

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

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.

⁴ Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:

²⁵ It seemed good to us, having come to an agreement together, to send these men to you, with our well loved Barnabas and Paul,

³³ Then it was said to Saul, See, the people are sinning against the Lord, taking the blood with the flesh. And he said to those who gave him the news, Now let a great stone be rolled to me here.

³⁴ And Saul said, Go about among the people and say to them, Let every man come here to me with his ox and his sheep, and put them to death here, and take his meal: do no sin against the Lord by taking the blood with the flesh. So all the people took their oxen with them that night and put them to death there.

²¹ You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.