Leviticus 17:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

That's also why I have forbidden you to eat blood.

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This law applies both to native Israelites and to those foreigners who live among you.

So, Ezekiel, tell them I am saying: How can you think the land is still yours? You eat meat with blood in it and worship idols. You commit murder

Life is in the blood, and I have given you the blood of animals to sacrifice in place of your own.

Even if you should hunt and kill a bird or an animal, you must drain out the blood and cover it with soil.

So you and your descendants must never eat any fat or any blood, not even in the privacy of your own homes. This law will never change.