Verse 23

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!

Referenced Verses

• Lev 17:11 : 11 for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.
• Gen 9:4 : 4 But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.
• Lev 17:13-14 : 13 “‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil, 14 for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood– all who eat it will be cut off.
• Deut 12:16 : 16 However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.
• Lev 3:16-17 : 16 Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma– all the fat belongs to the LORD. 17 This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”