Then the people rushed greedily upon the plunder, took sheep, oxen and calves, butchered them on the ground, and the people ate them with the blood.
Only flesh with its life—that is, its blood—you must not eat!
“Therefore say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘You eat with the blood, lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood. Should you possess the land?
“You are not to eat any meat with the blood still in it, nor are you to use enchantments, or practice sorcery.
“It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you must eat neither fat nor blood.”
but to write to them to abstain from the contamination of idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. By keeping away from these things, you will do well. Shalom!”
But you are not to eat the blood—you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
Why then did you not obey the voice of Adonai, but rushed greedily onto the spoil—doing what was evil in Adonai’s eyes?”