'Blood' in the Bible

He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.

Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

“Whoever sheds man’s blood,By man his blood shall be shed,For in the image of GodHe made man.

Reuben further said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay hands on him”—that he might rescue him out of their hands, to restore him to his father.

Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it for us to kill our brother and cover up his blood?

So they took Joseph’s tunic, and slaughtered a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood;

Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Now comes the reckoning for his blood.”

“He ties his foal to the vine,And his donkey’s colt to the choice vine;He washes his garments in wine,And his robes in the blood of grapes.