[boatbums]

Thank you for your reply. Whether all of the blood of the sacrifices were poured or sprinkled, I guess my point was that the Israelites were forbidden from eating blood PERIOD (see Genesis 9:4; Lev. 3:17; 7:27; 17:10, 14; 19:26; Deut. 12:16, 23; 15:23). The blood belonged to God alone as it represented the life of the flesh. In Leviticus 17, God says:

For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make an atonement for your souls upon the altar, since it is the lifeblood that makes atonement. Therefore I say to the Israelites, ‘None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.' (Leviticus 17:11,12)

As the life of the creature, was given for theirs to preserve them alive, and secure them from death their sins deserved; and so the Targum of Jonathan is, for the sins of the soul; which shows that these sacrifices were vicarious, in the room of men, and for the life of them, and to atone for them; and is the reason given why blood should not be eaten. for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul; so here was life for life, soul for soul as Aben Ezra expresses it; it was a vicarious sacrifice and atonement, typical of the sacrifice and atonement of Christ, in the room and stead of his people, there being no atonement, no remission of sins without shedding of blood; and the reason of the prohibition of eating blood was to direct to that blood as the atonement for sin, and to keep up a reverence of it, and a value and esteem for it. (Gill's Exposition of the Bible)

[MHGinTN]

Do you happen to know when Catholicism stopped claiming they give body and blood of Jesus in the Mass?

[Elsie]

Therefore I say to the Israelites, ‘None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.' (Leviticus 17:11,12)

Therefore I say to the Catholics, "Go ahead; 'cause you ain't Israelites!