"For [as for the] lifeof allflesh,its bloodis [identified] with its life.Therefore I saidto the sonsof Israel,'You are not to eatthe bloodof anyflesh,for the lifeof allfleshis its blood;whoevereatsit shall be cutoff.'
"Onlyyou shall not eatfleshwith its life,[that is], its blood.
Whoevershall mix[any] likeit or whoeverputsanyof it on a laymanshall be cutofffrom his people.'"
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.
"Onlybe surenot to eatthe blood,for the bloodis the life,and you shall not eatthe lifewith the flesh.
