17It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
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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.
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-17)Directions are here given concerning the peace-offering, if it was a sheep or a goat. Turtle-doves or young pigeons, which might be brought for whole burnt offerings, were not allowed for peace-offerings, because they have no fat considerable enough to be burnt upon the altar; and they would be next to nothing if they were to be divided according to the law of the peace-offerings. The laws concern…
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