³ Every living creature will be food for you;^(A) as I gave the green plants, I have given you everything.^{(B) 4} However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.^(C)

Eating Blood and Carcasses Prohibited

¹⁰ “Anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who live among them who eats any blood,^(A) I will turn^[a] against that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people. ¹¹ For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have appointed it to you to make atonement on the altar for^[b] your lives, since it is the lifeblood that makes atonement.^{(B) 12} Therefore I say to the Israelites: None of you and no foreigner who lives among you may eat blood.

¹⁶ but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.^(A)

²³ But don’t eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.