Only flesh with its soul--its blood--YOU must not eat.
That is why I have said to the sons of Israel: "No soul of YOU must eat blood and no alien resident who is residing as an alien in YOUR midst should eat blood."
but to write them to abstain from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.
Scripture quotations are taken from
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures,
published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Inc.