Leviticus 17:12-14

International Standard Version

¹² This is why I’ve told the Israelis that no person^[a] among you is to eat blood. Even the resident alien who lives among you is not to eat blood.

¹³ “If a person from the house of Israel or a resident alien who lives among you has hunted live game or a bird that may be eaten, he is to extract its blood and cover it with soil, ¹⁴ because the life of any flesh is the blood itself. Therefore, I’m saying to the Israelis that the blood of any flesh is not to be eaten, because the life of any flesh is in its blood. Anyone who eats of it is to be eliminated from contact with his people.^[b]