Leviticus 17:1-9
Statutes Against Eating Blood
17Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what Yahweh has commanded, saying, 3“Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp, 4and ahas not brought it to the doorway of the tent of meeting to bring it near as an offering to Yahweh before the 1tabernacle of Yahweh, it will be counted as bloodguiltiness to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people. 5“1The reason is so that the sons of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they were sacrificing in the open field, that they may bring them in to Yahweh, at the doorway of the tent of meeting to the priest, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh. 6“And the priest shall splash the blood on the altar of Yahweh at the doorway of the tent of meeting and aoffer up the fat in smoke as a soothing aroma to Yahweh. 7“aAnd they shall no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to the 1goat demons with which they play the harlot. This shall be a perpetual statute to them throughout their generations.”’