14For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
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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 be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. …
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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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