For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.’
But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; f