John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 17:14
For it is the life of all flesh ,.... Of every animal: the blood of it is for the life thereof ; for the production, preservation, and continuance of life; that on which life depends, as Jarchi observes: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh ; of beasts or birds, whose flesh was fit for food; but their blood was not to be eaten, for the reasons before given: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof ; which is... 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