Deuteronomy 12:24

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Instead, you shall pour it upon the ground like water,

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by a perpetual law, in your generations and in all of your habitations, neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.

Only the blood you shall not eat. Instead, you shall pour it upon the ground like water.

Only beware of this: you may not eat the blood. For their blood is for the soul. And because of this, you must not eat the soul with the flesh.

so that it may be well with you, and with your sons after you, when you will do what is pleasing in the sight of the Lord.

This alone shall you observe: that you do not eat their blood, but pour it upon the ground like water."