Genesis 9:4

‘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.

‘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 that makes atonement by the life.’

“For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.’

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

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

“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.

“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.

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.