“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.”
Because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites: you must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off. The repetition of the life-is-blood principle grounds the game animal blood-covering requirement in the same theology as the general blood prohibition. The life of every creature is its blood — not only the domesticated sacrifice animals but every creature that the hunter pursues. The blood prohibition extends beyond the tabernacle's sacrificial context to every animal killed by every person within the covenant community's life.
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