Leviticus 17:14

“For [it is] the life of all flesh, etc.] 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 repeated, that it might be observed and taken notice of, as that in which the force of the reason lay for giving this law: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off; by death, whether he be an Israelite or a proselyte of…”

“The prohibition to eat blood is repeated in seven places in the Pentateuch, but in this passage two distinct grounds are given for the prohibition: first, its own nature as the vital fluid; secondly, its consecration in sacrificial worship. Leviticus 17:11 Rather, For the soul of the flesh is in the blood; and I have ordained it for you upon the altar, to make atonement for your souls, for the blood it is which makes atonement by means of the soul. In the Old Testament there are three words relating to the constitution of man; (a) “life” as opposed to death Genesis 1:20; Deuteronomy 30:15; (b) the “soul” as distinguished from the body; the individual life either in man or beast, whether…”

“Lev 17:11, Lev 17:12; Gen 9:4; Deu 12:23 Leviticus 17:15”