“Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.”
Therefore I say to the Israelites: none of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner residing among you eat blood. The absolute prohibition on blood eating, grounded in the theological principle of verse 11, is stated with full force: none of you, not even the foreigner who resides among you. The universality of the prohibition communicates the universality of the theological principle: the life-in-blood principle is not a cultural convention but a theological reality that applies to every person living within the covenant community's space.
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