Leviticus 17:14 BSB

Leviticus 17:14

For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.’

BSB

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ASV

For as to the life of all flesh, the blood thereof is all one with the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

KJV

For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh - Independently of the moral reasons given above, we may add, 1. That blood, being highly alkalescent, especially in hot climates, is subject to speedy putrefaction. 2. That it affords a gross nutriment, being very difficult of digestion, so much so that bull’s blood was used in ancient times as poison, “Its extreme viscidity rendering it totally indigestible by the powers of the human stomach.” 3. It is allowed that when blood was used in this country in great quantities, the scurvy was more frequent than at other times.

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
נֶ֣פֶשׁ	Ne.fesh	[the] life of	H5315 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
בָּשָׂ֗ר	ba.Sar	flesh	H1320 →
דָּמ֣וֹ	da.Mo	blood its	H1818 →
בְנַפְשׁוֹ֮	ve.naf.Sho	[is] <in> life its	H5315 →
הוּא֒	hu'	it	H1931 →
וָֽאֹמַר֙	va.'o.Mar	and I have said	H559 →
לִבְנֵ֣י	liv.Nei	to [the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
דַּ֥ם	dam	[the] blood of	H1818 →
כָּל־	kol-	any	H3605 →
בָּשָׂ֖ר	ba.Sar	flesh	H1320 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תֹאכֵ֑לוּ	to.Khe.lu	you must eat	H398 →
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
נֶ֤פֶשׁ	Ne.fesh	[the] life of	H5315 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
בָּשָׂר֙	ba.Sar	flesh	H1320 →
דָּמ֣וֹ	da.Mo	[is] blood its	H1818 →
הִ֔וא	hi'	it	H1931 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
אֹכְלָ֖יו	'o.khe.Lav	[those who] eat it	H398 →
יִכָּרֵֽת׃	yi.ka.Ret	he will be cut off	H3772 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 9:4
But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 12:16
  but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 12:23
  Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
- Deuteronomy 15:23
  But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- Acts 15:20
  Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
- Leviticus 7:26
  You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.
Through
Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
leads to
- Leviticus 17:11
  For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement…
- Genesis 9:4
  But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
- Leviticus 17:13–14
  And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.

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