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Originally Posted by ratbastid
They both sound like dietary prohibitions to me. At least the message in the first one, "abstain from blood" seems clear enough. Not being raised in those beliefs, the interpretation of a prohibition against blood transfusion seems like a bit of a stretch, but I can at least see the thinking.
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Yeah, the context of the whole passage is "what not to eat", which pretty much says to me, "don't drink blood"- and more specifically of animals. Everything listed is talking about what animals not to eat. I'm at a loss on how that can be interpreted as "
human blood transfusion".