Leviticus - 7:27



27 Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 7:27.

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Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Whosoever it be that eateth any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Every one that eateth blood, shall perish from among the people.
Whatever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples.
Whatever soul it may be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
any person who eateth any blood, even that person hath been cut off from his people.'
Whatever soul it be that eats any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Whoever takes any blood for food will be cut off from his people.
Every soul that will have eaten blood shall perish from his people.
Omnis anima quae comederit ullum sanguinem, excidetur anima illa e populis suis.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Whatsoever soul - that eateth any manner of blood - See Clarke's note on Genesis 9:4. Shall be cut off - excommunicated from the people of God, and so deprived of any part in their inheritance, and in their blessings. See Clarke's note on Genesis 17:14.

Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood,.... The Targum of Jonathan adds, of any living creature, that is, of any while it is alive; for the Jews always interpret the law in Genesis 9:4 of the member of a living creature torn off from it, and its flesh with the blood eaten directly:
even that soul shall be cut off from his people; Maimonides (r) observes, that to some sorts of food cutting off is threatened, particularly to blood, because of the eager desire of men to eat it in those times, and because it precipitated them to a certain species of idolatry; he means that of the Zabians, of which See Gill on Ezekiel 33:25 of the true reason of the prohibition of eating blood under the law, see Leviticus 17:10, &c.
(r) Moreh Nevochim, par. 3. c. 41.

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