Deuteronomy 12:16

“However, flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

and has not brought it to the doorway of the tent of meeting to bring it near as an offering to Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh, it will be counted as bloodguiltiness to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

‘And any man from the house of Israel, or from the sojourners who sojourn among them, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.

“So any man from the sons of Israel, or from the sojourners who sojourn among them, who in hunting catches a beast or a bird which may be eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.

‘You shall not eat anything with the blood nor interpret omens or soothsaying.

“Only be strong in yourselves not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

“You shall eat it within your gates; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as a gazelle or a deer.

“Only you shall not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

So the people rushed greedily upon the spoil, and they took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

Then they told Saul, saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have acted treacherously; roll a great stone to me today.”

“For her blood is in her midst; She placed it on the bare rock; She did not pour it on the ground To cover it with dust.

“Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “You eat meat with the blood in it and lift up your eyes to your idols as you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from sexual immorality and from what is strangled and from blood.