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

¹⁷ ‘This shall be a ^(A)perpetual^[a] statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor ^(B)blood.’ ”

^16 (A)Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

³³ Then they told Saul, saying, “Look, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood!”

So he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a large stone to me this day.”