John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 17:12
Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, no soul of you shall eat blood ,.... Great or small as Jarchi observes, for the reason above given; which, though not expressed before, was the true reason of this law, which had been given before, and now repeated; see Leviticus 3:17 , neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood ; any proselyte of righteousness; this is not observed before. read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 17:10-16
We have here, I. A repetition and confirmation of the law against eating blood. We have met with this prohibition twice before in the levitical law (Lev. 3:17; 7:26), besides the place it had in the precepts of Noah, Gen. 9:4. But here, 1. The prohibition is repeated again and again, and reference had to the former laws to this purport (Lev. 17:12): I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood; and again (Lev. 17:14), You shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh. A great... read more