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Leviticus 19:26

Leviticus 19:26
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Ye shall not eat anything with the blood,.... Or upon, over, or by the blood (s), for this law seems different from that in Gen 9:4, and from those in Lev 3:17; and is variously interpreted by the…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Leviticus 19:26-28

Certain pagan customs, several of them connected with magic, are here grouped together. The prohibition to eat anything with the blood may indeed refer to the eating of meat which had not been…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Neither shall ye use enchantment - לא תנחשו lo thenachashu. Conjecture itself can do little towards a proper explanation of the terms used in this verse. נחש nachash; See note at Gen 3:1 (note), we…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Leviticus 19:19-29

Here is, I. A law against mixtures, Lev 19:19. God in the beginning made the cattle after their kind (Gen 1:25), and we must acquiesce in the order of nature God hath established, believing that is…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

with the blood The LXX. has here instead -upon the mountains," probably influenced by the phrase in Eze 18:6; Eze 22:9, which, however, according to Rob.-Sm. (Kinship, p. 312), should be assimilated…