for the life of all flesh is its blood. ¹  So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing ²  because the life of every living thing is its blood – all who eat it will be cut off. ³ 

“You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

But the Lord said, “What have you done? ¹  The voice ²  of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a young goat, ¹  and dipped the tunic in the blood.

“If a thief is caught ¹  breaking in ²  and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him. ³ 

“You must not offer ¹  the blood of my sacrifice with bread containing yeast; the fat of my festal sacrifice must not remain until morning. ² 

and you are to kill the ram and take its blood and splash it all around on the altar.

“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. ¹ 

This is ¹  a perpetual statute throughout your generations ²  in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’” ³ 

Then that high priest must take some of the blood ¹  of the bull and bring it to the Meeting Tent.

Any person who eats any blood – that person will be cut off from his people.’” ¹ 

Then he is to sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse and consecrate it ¹  from the impurities of the Israelites.

You must not go about as a slanderer among your people. ¹  You must not stand idly by when your neighbor’s life is at stake. ²  I am the Lord.

If a man has sexual intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion; ¹  their blood guilt is on themselves.

The avenger ¹  of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.

then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.

However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger ¹  to die.

You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent ¹  from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Then they must proclaim, “Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we ¹  witnessed the crime. ²