Therefore thou shalt say to them, The Lord God saith these things, Whether ye that eat in blood, and raise your eyes to your uncleannesses, and shed blood, shall have in pos-session the land by heritage?
If any man of the sons of Israel, and of the comelings that be pilgrims among you, eateth any blood, I shall set fast my face against his soul, and I shall lose him from his people;
for the life of flesh is in the blood, and I gave that blood to you, that ye cleanse therewith upon mine altar for your souls, and that the blood be sprinkled for [the] sin of the soul.
And they sung a new song, and said, Lord our God, thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals of it; for thou were slain, and again-boughtest us to God in thy blood, of each lineage, and tongue, and people, and nation;
and the people turned to [the] prey, and took sheep and oxen, and calves; and they killed these beasts upon the earth; and the people ate the flesh with blood.
And they told to Saul, and said, that the people eating with blood had sinned to the Lord. And Saul said, Ye have trespassed; wallow ye anon to me a great stone.