Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Soul. See Genesis ix. 4. Blood maintains the life of animals, and it would seem cruel to begin to eat them before they were perfectly dead. But the obligation of this positive law has long ago ceased, as it was intended chiefly for the Jews.