The prohibition to eat blood is repeated in seven places in the Pentateuch, but in this passage, two distinct grounds are given for the prohibition…

For it is the life of all flesh ... — A better rendering is, for the soul of all flesh is its blood, in, or through, its soul. Th…

For [it is] the life of all flesh
Of every animal:

the blood of it [is] for the life thereof…

Here is a confirmation of the law against eating blood. They were not to eat any blood. However, this law was ceremonial and is now no longer in fo…