Leviticus 17:12

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

‘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.

“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.

“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?