animals)1 and metaphorically (to mean killing)2—but here it is an eating of blood, not a drinking of it, a consumption of blood in the process of eating, that is intended. The possibility that one might drain off and drink up the blood is not contemplated.3 This prohibition of ‘eating blood’ occurs outside of this chapter in two other places in the Priestly code: Lev. 3:17 and 7:26–27. In all three passages the modifier כל ‘all, any’ appears, and in our chapter it recurs in v. 14 (דם כל בשׂר לא תאכלו,