“Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.”
Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. Do not practice divination or seek omens. The blood prohibition and the divination prohibition are paired: both address the improper appropriation of what belongs to God. Blood belongs to God (Leviticus 17:11); the future belongs to God. Divination and omen-seeking attempt to access divine knowledge through unauthorized means — to appropriate the divine prerogative of knowing the future. Deuteronomy 18:10–12 extends the divination prohibition comprehensively.
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