Miscellanies: Don't Eat the Blood...Yet

I was struck again by the thick prohibition in the Old Testament to not consume blood:

“Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth like water…The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, but the flesh you may eat.” (Deuteronomy 12:23–24, 27)