His people were to avoid sustaining life by taking in blood. He decreed: “You must not eat the blood of any sort of flesh, because the soul of every sort of flesh is its blood.
नहीं तो, जीव से निकले लहू को भूमि पर उँडेल देना था, एक अर्थ में इसे परमेश्‍वर को लौटा देना था ।