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Ezekiel 24:7-9
New Catholic Bible
Ezekiel 24:7-9
New Catholic Bible
7 For the blood she shed is in her midst;
she has poured it on a bare rock.
She did not pour it on the ground
where the soil would cover it.[a]
8 To stir up anger and take revenge,
I placed her blood on the bare rock
so that it would not be covered.
9 Therefore, thus says the Lord God:
Woe to the city running with blood.
I plan to build a great fire.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 24:7 Blood was regarded as the seat of life; therefore the prohibition against eating flesh with blood still in it, since this would have been like making one’s own the life, of which, the divinity alone could dispose (Gen 9:4; Lev 17:10-12; Deut 12:16, 23-25). For the same reason, blood spilled was not to be left uncovered, since it might contain some inauspicious power (Gen 4:10; Job 16:18).
