¹⁶ `Only, the blood ye do not eat -- on the earth thou dost pour it as water;

⁴ only flesh in its life -- its blood -- ye do not eat.

²³ Only, its blood thou dost not eat; on the earth thou dost pour it as water.

²⁹ to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

²⁶ `And any blood ye do not eat in all your dwellings, of fowl, or of beast;

²⁷ any person who eateth any blood, even that person hath been cut off from his people.'

¹⁰ `And any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners, who is sojourning in your midst, who eateth any blood, I have even set My face against the person who is eating the blood, and have cut him off from the midst of his people;

¹¹ for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar, to make atonement for your souls; for it `is' the blood which maketh atonement for the soul.

¹² `Therefore I have said to the sons of Israel, No person among you doth eat blood, and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst doth not eat blood;

¹³ and any man of the sons of Israel, or of the sojourners, who is sojourning in your midst, who hunteth venison, beast or fowl, which is eaten -- hath even poured out its blood, and hath covered it with dust;

²³ `Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood `is' the life, and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh;

²⁴ thou dost not eat it, on the earth thou dost pour it as water;

⁴ because every creature of God `is' good, and nothing `is' to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,