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Israelite law demanded scrupulous care in the treatment of the blood of slain animals. what reason for this is given in leviticus?

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Because blood is life. According to the bible “You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.” Leviticus 17:14New International Version (NIV)
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