"Onlyyou shall not eatfleshwith its life,[that is], its blood.
"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.'"
You are not to eatanyblood,either of birdor animal,in anyof your dwellings.
but that we writeto them that they abstainfrom things contaminatedby idolsand from fornicationand from what is strangledand from blood.
it seemed goodto us, having becomeof one mind,to selectmento sendto you with our belovedBarnabasand Paul,
that you abstainfrom things sacrificed to idolsand from bloodand from things strangledand from fornication;if you keepyourselvesfreefrom suchthings,you will dowell.Farewell."
"Onlyyou shall not eatthe blood;you are to pourit out on the groundlike water.
"Onlybe surenot to eatthe blood,for the bloodis the life,and you shall not eatthe lifewith the flesh.
"You shall not eatanythingwhichdies[of itself]. You may giveit to the alienwhois in your town,so that he may eatit, oryou may sellit to a foreigner,for you are a holypeopleto the LORDyour God.You shall not boila younggoatin its mother'smilk.
"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.
