13And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
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…
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