Leviticus 17:11

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:10-16

10-16 Here is a confirmation of the law against eating blood. They must eat no blood. But this law was ceremonial, and is now no longer in force; the coming of the substance does away the shadow. The blood of beasts is no longer the ransom, but Christ's blood only; therefore there is not now the reason for abstaining there then was. The blood is now allowed for the nourishment of our bodies; it is no longer appointed to make an atonement for the soul. Now the blood of Christ makes atonement... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Leviticus 17:10-16

Eating of Blood Forbidden v. 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. Cf 7:27. The Lord Himself threatens to be the executor in this case, for the transgression of this law was inconsistent with membership among the holy people of God. v. 11. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, is carried by... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Leviticus 17:1-16

BOOK IIOF CONTINUANCE IN COMMUNION WITH GODLeviticus 17-26_______________________________“The keeping holy of the consecrated relations of the life of Israel, of the whole round of sacrifice, and of the round of typical holiness, by the putting aside of the sins of obduracy (Cherem). Chaps. 17–27”—Lange.PART I. HOLINESS ON THE PART OF THE PEOPLELeviticus 17-20______________FIRST SECTION“The keeping holy of all animal slaughter as the basis of all sacrifice, of the blood as the soul of all... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Leviticus 17:1-16

“The Life of the Flesh is in the Blood” Leviticus 17:1-16 Every animal that was slain for food was regarded as a kind of peace-offering, and was therefore slain at the door of the Tabernacle. This law, though it expressed a great principle, was only provisional. It was kept as long as Israel dwelled in the Wilderness, but repealed when they entered the Land of Promise, where their numbers and diffusion would have rendered its strict observance impossible. See Deuteronomy 12:15-24 . Very... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 17:1-16

Very definite instructions were given to the priests concerning sacrifices. These provided, first, that all sacrifices must be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting. This provision at once recognized the unification of the nation around the fact of the divine presence It reminded the people that worship is possible only along divinely ordained lines and in no isolated independence; and so by making offering of sacrifice there, the possibility of offering worship to strange gods was... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:11-12

The Reason Why Abstaining From Blood Is So Vital (Leviticus 17:11-12 ). Leviticus 17:11 “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your persons. For it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.” And the reason for this provision, which was permanent and binding, and permitted of no exception, was because ‘the life of the flesh is in the blood’, the blood uniquely represents the life. It was the life principle of the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:1-16

Leviticus 17-26. The “ Holiness Code” (see Introd. § 2). Leviticus 17. Restrictions on Sacrifice.— The whole chapter recalls P, yet there are differences of phrase ( e.g. “ what man soever,” Leviticus 17:3) and of tone ( e.g. the giving of a reason for a command, Leviticus 17:11) and of contents ( e.g. the explicit prohibition of slaughter except at the central sanctuary). Of the four sections of the chapter, each with its introductory phrase, the second is an extension of the first, the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:10-12

Leviticus 17:10-2 Kings : . Prohibition of “ Eating Blood,” i.e. of eating flesh not properly drained of blood ( Genesis 9:4 *).— The reason given, that the life is in the blood ( Leviticus 17:11), underlies the special importance of the blood in the earlier chapters and the whole sacrificial practice. The blood “ makes atonement,” i.e. it is the part of the sacrifice brought into contact, so to speak, with Yahweh, which therefore secures the worshipper’ s power to approach Yahweh... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 17:11

Of the flesh, i.e. of living creatures. Is in the blood, i.e. it depends upon the blood, is preserved and nourished by it, and is extinguished when the blood is gone. And this law was given to the Jews, and hard-hearted people, as they are oft said to be, that by this restraint from the blood of brute creatures they might be wrought to the greater abhorrency of taking away the life of a man. It is the blood that maketh an atonement; typically, and in respect of the blood of Christ, which it... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Leviticus 17:1-16

The Sanctity of the BloodSUGGESTIVE READINGSLeviticus 17:4.—And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle. A captious mind will ask. Why is not sacrifice acceptable to God wherever offered? Surely it is in the spirit of the offerer, rather than in the circumstances of the offering, that piety consists. Wherefore, then, this insistance on mere conditions, and importance attached to the place of sacrifice? But God meets such contention of thought with absolute interdict; He is the authority... read more

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