16Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. …
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-32)There is not any one particular precept (as I remember) in all the law of Moses so largely pressed and inculcated as this, by which they are all tied to bring their sacrifices to that one altar which was set up in the court of the tabernacle, and there to perform all the rituals of their religion; for, as to moral services, then, no doubt, as now, men might pray every where, as they did in their s…
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