Leviticus 17:11-13

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹¹ For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I myself have given it to you to make atonement for your lives upon the altar, because it is the blood that makes atonement by means of the life. ¹² Therefore I have said to the Israelites: None of you shall eat blood, nor shall any alien who resides among you eat blood.

¹³ If any of the Israelites or any alien who resides among them successfully hunts wild game and takes an animal or a bird that may be eaten, he must pour out its blood and cover it with earth.