Deuteronomy 12:23

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

‘And you shall not eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your places of habitation.

‘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.

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

“However, you may sacrifice and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the 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.”

“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.