For 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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Gill's Exposition
For it is the life of all flesh,.... Of every animal:
the blood of it is for the life thereof; for the production, preservation, and continuance of life; that on which life depends, as Jarchi…
The prohibition to eat blood is repeated in seven places in the Pentateuch, but in this passage two distinct grounds are given for the prohibition: first, its own nature as the vital fluid; secondly,…
Adam Clarke
Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh - Independently of the moral reasons given above, we may add,
1. That blood, being highly alkalescent, especially in hot climates, is subject to speedy…
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; Lev 7:26), besides the place it had in…
Directions how the blood of beasts or fowls taken in hunting is to be dealt with.