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)