23Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
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Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
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.
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-29)Here is, 1. A repetition of the law concerning the firstlings of their cattle, that, if they were males, they were to be sanctified to the Lord (Deut. 15:19), in remembrance of, and in thankfulness for, the sparing of the first-born of Israel, when the first-born of the Egyptians, both of man and beast, were slain by the destroying angel ( Exod. 13:2 , 15 ); on the eighth day it was to be given to…
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