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Post by gsmithb on Mar 11, 2014 3:30:57 GMT
I wonder if the Hebrews killed and ate animals very often? Their diet might have been mostly grain and vegetables. If everyone were to bring the animal that they were to kill and eat, there would be much blood. Every animal for food was to be killed at the door of the tabernacle. Later that would be impossible, because of distance as they would have been scattered to their own territory. God provided another means. This rule of bringing the animal was to insure that the blood was drained as God commanded. Concerning the amount of blood would of course be a minor thing to God to dispose of.
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Post by Lee on Mar 11, 2014 5:14:32 GMT
I didn't realize the Law changed from the time they were in the wilderness to the time they entered the land:
"When the people were in a camp all animals killed for food had to be dealt with centrally under the supervision of the priests as peace offerings (Lev. 17:3, 4), but once they were in the land it became impossible to apply such a law, and so provision was made for the slaughtering to take place within any of their gates (Deut. 12:20, 21). Probably the reference to gates implies that there was still to be a degree of supervision of slaughtering by the resident Levites who would serve as clerks to the city elders who met in the gates."
1958 Christadelphian p 74
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Post by dwolfe on Mar 11, 2014 12:48:31 GMT
Still though, the amount of blood shed for well over a million people, while they were in the desert, has to be staggering if that was their daily food source. It is hard for me to imagine, blood coagulates into large globs. It doesnt just run down or filter into the earth as easily as water. I sure there had to be an odor related to it as well.
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