Someone said to Saul, “Look! The men are sinning against the Lord. They’re eating meat without draining the blood from it!” Saul said, “You have sinned! Roll a large stone over here now!”
Instead, we should write a letter to them telling them these things: Stay away from food that has been offered to idols (which makes it unclean), any kind of sexual sin, eating animals that have been strangled, and blood.
Then he said, “Go to the men and tell them that each person must bring his ox and sheep to me and kill it here and eat it. Don’t sin against the Lord by eating meat without draining the blood from it.” That night everyone brought his animals and killed them there.