²⁹ that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled^[a] and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”^(A)

⁴ Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.^(A)

¹⁷ It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”^(A)

¹⁶ The blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.^(A)

²³ Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.^(A)

⁷ Do not become idolaters as some of them did, as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.”^(A)

⁸ We must not engage in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.^(A)

¹⁴ Therefore, my beloved, flee from the worship of idols.^(A)

²⁰ No, I imply that what they^[a] sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.^(A)