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A hunter covers poured-out blood with loose earth beside a mostly covered game bird. The accompanying verses apply the rule to Israelites and sojourners and forbid eating blood because the life of flesh is in it.
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Leviticus 17:13-14

The hunter covers the blood

The Sanctity of Blood · Leviticus 17

Story guide: A hunter covers poured-out blood with loose earth beside a mostly covered game bird. The accompanying verses apply the rule to Israelites and sojourners and forbid eating blood because the life of flesh is in it.

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13And any man from the sons of Israel, or from the sojourner who sojourns among them, who hunts game—whether wild animal or bird—that may be eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.

14For the life of all flesh is its blood; in its life it is. So I said to the sons of Israel, ‘You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood.’ Everyone who eats it shall be cut off.

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