Leviticus 17:11

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

‘Then he shall slaughter the young bull before Yahweh; and Aaron’s sons the priests shall bring near the blood and splash the blood around on the altar that is at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

‘It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your places of habitation: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’”

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

“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.’

“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.

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.

A man oppressed with the bloodguilt of life Will flee until death; let no one uphold him.

And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.