Leviticus 17:11
Because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you, that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your souls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the soul.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 9:4Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.
Leviticus 4:26But the fat he shall burn upon it, as is wont to be done with the victims of peace offerings: and the priest shall pray for him, and for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus 16:11After these things are duly celebrated, he shall offer the calf, and praying for himself and for his own house, he shall immolate it:
Leviticus 17:14For the life of all flesh is in the blood: therefore I said to the children of Israel: You shall not eat the blood of any flesh at all, because the life of the flesh is in the blood, and whosoever eateth it, shall be cut off.
Matthew 20:28Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many.
Mark 14:24And he said to them: This is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 17:11-16
The Eating of Blood Forbidden. ( b. c. 1490.) 10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No… Read the whole commentary →