LEV 19:26 Do Not Eat Blood Law / Do Not Practice Sorcery Law

Law

• You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. 

• You shall not use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.

Judgment

• Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

LEV 17:10 (TCMV)

• There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells fortunes, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For whoever does these things is an abomination to YHWH.

DEU 18:10-12 (TCMV)

Biblical Example

• This is a biblical example of the Do Not Eat Blood Law being disobeyed.

They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint; 32 and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

1 Samuel 14:31-32 (WEB)

This biblical example is referring to a transgression that occurred after a battle Israel had with the Philistines during King Saul's reign.

• This is a biblical example of the Do Not Practice Sorcery Law being disobeyed.

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as YHWH had commanded. Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments. 12 For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.

EX 7:10-12 (TCMV)

This biblical example is referring to when Moses first spoke with the pharaoh of Egypt about YHWH's command to free the children of Israel.