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

¹⁷ It is a ^(A)permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places: you shall not eat any fat ^(B)or any blood.’”

²⁶ And ^(A)you are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.

¹⁰ ‘^(A)And anyone from the house of Israel, or from the strangers who reside among them, who eats any blood, ^(B)I will set My face against that person who eats the blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

¹⁴ “^(A)For as for the ^[a]life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its ^[b]life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the ^[c]life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.’

²⁶ ‘You shall not eat any meat ^(A)with the blood. You shall not practice ^(B)divination nor soothsaying.

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

²³ Only be sure ^(A)not to eat the blood, for the blood is the ^[a]life, and you shall not eat the ^[b]life with the flesh.

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

³³ Then observers informed Saul, saying, “Look, the people are ^(A)sinning against the Lord by eating meat with the blood.” And he said, “You have acted treacherously; roll a large rock to me today.”