26Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
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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.
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. …
Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-34)All this relates to the peace-offerings: it is the repetition and explication of what we had before, with various additions. I. The nature and intention of the peace-offerings are here more distinctly opened. They were offered either, 1. In thankfulness for some special mercy received, such as recovery from sickness, preservation in a journey, deliverance at sea, redemption out of captivity, all w…
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