Laws Against Eating Blood

10 “If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them ^deats any blood, I will ^eset my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. 11 ^fFor the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar ^gto make atonement for your souls, ^hfor it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.

14 For the life of every creature¹ is its ^kblood: its blood is its life.² Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

16 ^wOnly you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

23 ^dOnly be sure that you do not eat the blood, ^efor the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

33 Then they told Saul, “Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating ^hwith the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.”¹

20 but should write to them ^pto abstain from ^qthe things polluted by idols, and from ^rsexual immorality, and from ^swhat has been strangled, and from ^sblood.

29 ^jthat you abstain from ^kwhat has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”