Leviticus 17:14

For the life of every creature is its blood : its blood is its life . Therefore I have said to the people of Israel , You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood . Whoever eats it shall be cut off .

because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, “You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.”

For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh : for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.