Leviticus 17:7-16

⁷They must not continue to offer their sacrifices to the goat devils with whom they have acted like prostitutes. This is a regulation for all time and for all future generations.

⁸Warn them that any Israelite or any foreigner living among them who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice

⁹without bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to the Lord must be expelled from their people.

¹⁰I will disown any Israelite or any foreigner living among them who eats any blood and I will expel them from their people.

¹¹Life is in the body's blood. I have given it to you so that by putting it on the altar your lives can be made right, for it is the lifeblood that makes people's lives right.

¹²That's why I'm warning the Israelites: None of you is allowed to eat blood, and no foreigner living among you is allowed to eat blood.

¹³Any Israelite or foreigner living among them who hunts and kills a wild animal or a bird which are allowed be eaten must drain the blood from its body and cover it with earth,

¹⁴for life is in the body's blood. That's why I have warned the Israelites: You are not allowed to eat the blood of anything living, for life is in the body's blood. Anyone who eats it must be expelled.

¹⁵Anyone, Israelite or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or killed by wild animals must wash their clothes and wash with water, and they will be unclean until the evening. Then they will be clean.

¹⁶But if they don't wash their clothes and wash themselves with water, then they bear responsibility for their guilt.”