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his fleſh without ſcruple; and they ſaid we have not violated the law, we have not eaten the fleſh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, for the blood we have poured upon the earth like water!
"Thou ſhalt not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; thou ſhalt pour it upon the earth like water," Levit. chap. xvii.
In the ſame manner "the Indians (American) through a ſtrong principle of religion, abſtain from eating the blood of any animal, as it contains the life and ſpirit of the heart, and was the very eſſence of the ſacrifices that were to be offered up for ſinners."
Adair's Hiſt. of American Indians, p. 134.
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