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Leviticus 19:26

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26

“‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.

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Verse 26. Blood. The flesh of any animal. The blood must belong to God. The members of the Sanhedrim eat nothing on the day that a criminal is executed, supposing that this is the meaning of the precept. The Septuagint read erim, “on the mountains;” and another version has, “on the roof,” as if the worship of idols on high places were forbidden. Bible.—Divine. Perhaps by means of “serpents,” or “plates of brass,” as the Hebrew ness, may insinuate. These methods were known to the ancients. Horace, Ode iii. 37. Plin. xxx. 2. Calmet.—Dreams. Hebrew times. See Galatians 4:10. Bible.

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