Deuteronomy 12:16

12:16 However, you must not eat blood – pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

12:23 However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself ¹  – you must not eat the life with the meat!

Leviticus 7:26

7:26 And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live. ² 

Leviticus 7:1

The Guilt Offering

7:1 “‘This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy.

Leviticus 14:32

14:32 This is the law of the one in whom there is a diseased infection, ³  who does not have sufficient means for his purification.” ⁴ 

Ezekiel 33:25

33:25 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, ⁵  pray to ⁶  your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess ⁷  the land?

¹ sn The blood is life itself. This is a figure of speech (metonymy) in which the cause or means (the blood) stands for the result or effect (life). That is, life depends upon the existence and circulation of blood, a truth known empirically but not scientifically tested and proved until the 17th century a.d. (cf. Lev 17:11).

² tn Heb “and any blood you must not eat in any of your dwelling places, to the bird and to the animal.”

³ tn Heb “This is the law of who in him [is] a diseased infection.”

⁴ tn Heb “who his hand does not reach in his purification”; NASB “whose means are limited for his cleansing”; NIV “who cannot afford the regular offerings for his cleansing.”

⁵ sn This practice was a violation of Levitical law (see Lev 19:26).

⁶ tn Heb “lift up your eyes.”

⁷ tn Heb “Will you possess?”