The question about whether God eats flesh and drinks blood continues the rhetorical interrogation establishing the people's mistaken assumptions. The specific reference to eating flesh and drinking blood suggests the actual consumption implied by the sacrificial system. Yet the rhetorical form questions whether God actually requires such literal consumption; the people have confused the symbolic and substitutive nature of sacrifice with literal material necessity. The ongoing interrogation establishes that the people have completely misunderstood the purpose and nature of sacrifice. This verse continues to demolish the assumption that material offerings constitute the primary requirement of covenant relationship.

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