Leviticus 17:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 17

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.

Leviticus 17:12 —

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Exodus 12:49
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

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Commentary

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 you…