¹³ "'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

¹⁶ Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

²⁶ You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.

²⁴ You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

²³ Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.

⁷ For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

³² and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

³³ Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Yahweh, in that they eat with the blood. He said, you have dealt treacherously: roll a great stone to me this day.

³⁴ Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh in eating with the blood. All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.

¹⁸ "Earth, don't cover my blood, Let my cry have no place to rest.