RULE OF SACRIFICE. PROHIBITION AGAINST EATING BLOOD 1-9. The first part of this Law prescribes that all oxen, sheep, and goats, slaughtered for food, must first be presented to Jehovah at the sanctuary. This seems to presuppose a time when the Israelites used but little flesh food, and were not wid... [ Continue Reading ]
The object of this enactment was to counteract the tendency to offer sacrifice to those demons of the wilderness which were worshipped in the form of he-goats, for so the RV renders the word here translated DEVILS: see note on Azazel in Leviticus 16:8. GONE A WHORING] see on Exodus 34:10. 10-16. Pr... [ Continue Reading ]
The law against eating what dies of itself is a corollary of the former. The flesh of such an animal cannot be thoroughly drained of blood: cp. Exodus 22:31; Deuteronomy 14:21. BEAR HIS INIQUITY] bear the penalty of his transgression.... [ Continue Reading ]