Also taboo was mixing wine with blood and drinking it as a delicacy. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat. Blood here is also equated with life. Under Mosaic law, a murderer was guilty of blood and the avenger of blood was the nearest relative of the murdered. There was a peculiar sacredness attached to blood, because of the idea that prevailed of its unity with the soul .
Blood has the soul in itself, there is no animate life without blood.
In accordance with the gracious ordinance of God it is the means of expitiation for human souls, because of the soul contained in it. During the Passover of Egypt , the Israelites were to take the unblemished lamb, eat the flesh of it in haste and sprinkle the blood on the sides and the top of the door post. Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. The blood of sacrifices was caught by the priest in a basin, and then sprinkled seven times on the altar. The people were in this way consecrated to God.