'Blood' in the Bible

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

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself -- you must not eat the life with the meat!

You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; the blood of your other sacrifices you must pour out on his altar while you eat the meat.

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

Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

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

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

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

In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before the Lord.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh -- the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief of the enemy's leaders!'"

Cry out, O nations, with his people, for he will avenge his servants' blood; he will take vengeance against his enemies, and make atonement for his land and people.