²⁶ Moreover, ^(A)you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.

Laws Against Eating Blood

¹⁰ “If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them ^(A)eats any blood, I will ^(B)set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.

¹⁴ For the life of every creature^[a] is its ^(A)blood: its blood is its life.^[b] 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.

^26 (A)“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. ^(B)You shall not interpret omens or ^(C)tell fortunes.

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

^16 (A)Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

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

^23 (A)Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

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

²⁰ but should write to them ^(A)to abstain from ^(B)the things polluted by idols, and from ^(C)sexual immorality, and from ^(D)what has been strangled, and from ^(E)blood.