The prohibition (cp. Leviticus 17:12) is found also in Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 7:26; Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 12:16; Deuteronomy 12:23-24; Deuteronomy 15:23. It is regarded as having been obligatory from the beginning (Genesis 9:4). The word -eat" is probably used in order to include eating flesh which contained blood. When the people ate thus in their haste after the defeat of the Philistines, this is described as eating -with (Heb. upon) the blood" (1 Samuel 14:32-34). Cp. ch. Leviticus 19:26; Ezekiel 33:25.

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