12Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
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One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-16)We have here, I. A repetition and confirmation of the law against eating blood. We have met with this prohibition twice before in the levitical law ( Lev. 3:17 ; 7:26 ), besides the place it had in the precepts of Noah, Gen. 9:4. But here, 1. The prohibition is repeated again and again, and reference had to the former laws to this purport (Lev. 17:12): I said to the children of Israel, No soul of…
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