"Onlyyou shall not eatthe blood;you are to pourit out on the groundlike water.
"Onlyyou shall not eatfleshwith its life,[that is], its blood.
"For her bloodis in her midst;She placedit on the barerock;She did not pourit on the groundTo coverit with dust.
"Thereforesayto them, 'Thussaysthe LordGOD,"You eat[meat] with the blood[in it], liftup your eyesto your idolsas you shedblood.Should you then possessthe land?
You shall not eat[anything] with the blood,norpracticedivinationor soothsaying.
It is a perpetualstatutethroughout your generationsin allyour dwellings:you shall not eatanyfator anyblood.'"
but that we writeto them that they abstainfrom things contaminatedby idolsand from fornicationand from what is strangledand from blood.
that you abstainfrom things sacrificed to idolsand from bloodand from things strangledand from fornication;if you keepyourselvesfreefrom suchthings,you will dowell.Farewell."
"You shall eatit within your gates;the uncleanand the cleanalike[may eat it], as a gazelleor a deer.
"Onlyyou shall not eatits blood;you are to pourit out on the groundlike water.
For everythingcreatedby Godis good,and nothingis to be rejectedif it is receivedwith gratitude;
The peoplerushedgreedilyupon the spoil,and tooksheepand oxenand calves,and slew[them] on the ground;and the peopleate[them] with the blood.
Then they toldSaul,saying,"Behold,the peopleare sinningagainst the LORDby eatingwith the blood."And he said,"You have actedtreacherously;rolla greatstoneto me today."
