“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.
Here is, I. A law against mixtures, Lev 19:19. God in the beginning made the cattle after their kind (Gen 1:25), and we must acquiesce in the order of nature God hath established, believing that is best and sufficient, and not covet monsters.
Commenting on Leviticus 19:19-29
Ye shall not eat anything with the blood,.... Or upon, over, or by the blood (s), for this law seems different from that in Gen 9:4, and from those in Lev 3:17; and is variously interpreted by the Jewish writers; some of not eating flesh, the blood not being rightly let out of it, as not being thoroughly cleared of it (t), and so comes...
shall not eat any thing with the blood--(See on Lev 17:10). neither . . . use enchantment, nor observe times--The former refers to divination by serpents--one of the earliest forms of enchantment, and the other means the observation, literally, of clouds, as a study of the appearance and motion of clouds was a common way of foretelling good or bad fortune.