and why hast thou not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah -- and dost fly unto the spoil, and dost do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah?'

only flesh in its life -- its blood -- ye do not eat.

'A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.'

'And any blood ye do not eat in all your dwellings, of fowl, or of beast;

any person who eateth any blood, even that person hath been cut off from his people.'

'And any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners, who is sojourning in your midst, who eateth any blood, I have even set My face against the person who is eating the blood, and have cut him off from the midst of his people;

'Therefore I have said to the sons of Israel, No person among you doth eat blood, and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst doth not eat blood;

for [it is] the life of all flesh, its blood is for its life; and I say to the sons of Israel, Blood of any flesh ye do not eat, for the life of all flesh is its blood; any one eating it is cut off.

'Ye do not eat with the blood; ye do not enchant, nor observe clouds.

'Only, the blood ye do not eat -- on the earth thou dost pour it as water;

'Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood [is] the life, and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh;

thou dost not eat it, on the earth thou dost pour it as water;

Therefore say unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: With the blood ye do eat, And your eyes ye lift up unto your idols, And blood ye shed, and the land ye inherit!

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'