The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it; I forbid this because the life is in the blood.

The priest shall burn all this on the altar as a food offering pleasing to the LORD. All the fat belongs to the LORD.

No Israelite may eat any fat or any blood; this is a rule to be kept forever by all Israelites wherever they live.

The life of every living thing is in the blood, and that is why the LORD has commanded that all blood be poured out on the altar to take away the people's sins. Blood, which is life, takes away sins.

The life of every living thing is in the blood, and that is why the LORD has told the people of Israel that they shall not eat any meat with blood still in it and that anyone who does so will no longer be considered one of his people.

like the Son of Man, who did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life to redeem many people."

They sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to break open its seals. For you were killed, and by your sacrificial death you bought for God people from every tribe, language, nation, and race.