²⁶ And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood^(A) of any bird or animal. ²⁷ Anyone who eats blood^(B) must be cut off from their people.’”

⁴ instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting^(A) to present it as an offering to the Lord in front of the tabernacle of the Lord^(B)—that person shall be considered guilty of bloodshed; they have shed blood and must be cut off from their people.^(C)

¹⁶ But you must not eat the blood;^(A) pour^(B) it out on the ground like water.^(C)

²³ But be sure you do not eat the blood,^(A) because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.^(B)

³³ Then someone said to Saul, “Look, the men are sinning against the Lord by eating meat that has blood^(A) in it.”

“You have broken faith,” he said. “Roll a large stone over here at once.”

²⁰ Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols,^(A) from sexual immorality,^(B) from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.^(C)