Ye eat with the blood. — The people who remained in the land went on as before in their course of sin. The crimes here charged upon them (Ezekiel 33:25) are the same as those all along alleged against them, and Jeremiah gives a sad picture of their open rebellion against the express commands of God (Jeremiah 42, 43). This particular sin of eating flesh with the blood had been repeatedly forbidden, first to Noah (Genesis 9:4), and again under the Law (Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 7:26; Leviticus 17:10; Deuteronomy 12:16).

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