Leviticus 17:11-12
17:11 for the life of every living thing
is in the blood.
So I myself have assigned it to you
on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.
17:12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood,
and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood.
Genesis 9:4
9:4 But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.
Deuteronomy 12:23
12:23 However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself
– you must not eat the life with the meat!