¹⁹ Why then have you disobeyed the Lord? You have pounced on the spoil, thus doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight.”^(A)

²¹ But from the spoil the army took sheep and oxen, the best of what had been banned, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”^(A)

⁹ Then the Lord asked Cain, Where is your brother Abel? He answered, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

¹⁷ This shall be a perpetual ordinance for your descendants wherever they may dwell. You shall not eat any fat or any blood.^[a](A)

^26 (A)Wherever you dwell, you shall not eat any blood, whether of bird or of animal. ²⁷ Every person who eats any blood shall be cut off from the people.

^10 (A)As for anyone, whether of the house of Israel or of the aliens residing among them, who consumes any blood, I will set myself against that individual and will cut that person off from among the people, ¹¹ since the life of the flesh is in the blood,^(B) and I have given it to you to make atonement^[a] on the altar for yourselves, because it is the blood as life that makes atonement. ¹² That is why I have told the Israelites: No one among you, not even a resident alien, may consume blood.

¹³ Anyone hunting,^[b] whether of the Israelites or of the aliens residing among them, who catches an animal or a bird that may be eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth,^{(C) 14} since the life of all flesh is its blood. I have told the Israelites: You shall not consume the blood of any flesh. Since the life of all flesh is its blood, anyone who consumes it shall be cut off.

²⁰ but tell them by letter to avoid pollution from idols, unlawful marriage, the meat of strangled animals, and blood.^(A)

²⁹ namely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage. If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell.’”^(A)