Verse 23

`Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood `is' the life, and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh;

Referenced Verses

• Lev 17:11 : 11 for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar, to make atonement for your souls; for it `is' the blood which maketh atonement for the soul.
• Gen 9:4 : 4 only flesh in its life -- its blood -- ye do not eat.
• Lev 17:13-14 : 13 and any man of the sons of Israel, or of the sojourners, who is sojourning in your midst, who hunteth venison, beast or fowl, which is eaten -- hath even poured out its blood, and hath covered it with dust; 14 for `it is' the life of all flesh, its blood is for its life; and I say to the sons of Israel, Blood of any flesh ye do not eat, for the life of all flesh is its blood; any one eating it is cut off.
• Deut 12:16 : 16 `Only, the blood ye do not eat -- on the earth thou dost pour it as water;
• Lev 3:16-17 : 16 and the priest hath made them a perfume on the altar -- bread of a fire-offering, for sweet fragrance; all the fat `is' Jehovah's. 17 `A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.'