²⁹ that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled^[a] and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”^(A)

⁴ Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.^(A)

¹⁷ It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”^(A)

¹⁶ The blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.^(A)