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Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.
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Verse 23. Soul. See Genesis 9:4. Blood maintains the life of animals, and it would seem cruel to begin to eat them before they were perfectly dead. But the obligation of this positive law has long ago ceased, as it was intended chiefly for the Jews.
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