It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: