I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage.

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.

Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the Lord was unwilling to forgive them.

They shed innocent blood – the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.

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

And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is.”

for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.

מ (Mem) But it happened due to the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.

“Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”

“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with bread containing yeast; the fat of my festal sacrifice must not remain until morning.

“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with yeast; the sacrifice from the feast of Passover must not remain until the following morning.

This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”

Any person who eats any blood – that person will be cut off from his people.’”

You must not go about as a slanderer among your people. You must not stand idly by when your neighbor’s life is at stake. I am the Lord.

You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

So they yelled louder and, in accordance with their prescribed ritual, mutilated themselves with swords and spears until their bodies were covered with blood.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants be avenged among the nations!