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?
that ye abstain you from the offered things of maumets [or simu-lacra], and blood strangled, and forni-cation. From which ye keeping you, shall do well. Fare ye well.
but whatever thing is dead by itself, eat ye not thereof. Give thou meat to the pilgrim that is within thy gates, that he eat, either sell thou meat to him, for thou art an holy people of thy Lord God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
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.