²⁶ And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood^(A) of any bird or animal. ²⁷ Anyone who eats blood^(B) must be cut off from their people.’”

¹⁰ This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.^{(A) 11} You are to undergo circumcision,^(B) and it will be the sign of the covenant^(C) between me and you. ¹² For the generations to come^(D) every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised,^(E) including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring. ¹³ Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised.^(F) My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.^{(G) 14} Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised^(H) in the flesh, will be cut off from his people;^(I) he has broken my covenant.^(J)”

²⁶ But Lot’s wife looked back,^(A) and she became a pillar of salt.^(B)

¹⁶ But you must not eat the blood;^(A) pour^(B) it out on the ground like water.^(C)

²³ But be sure you do not eat the blood,^(A) because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.^(B)