Verse 32
32. The people flew upon the spoil, and… did eat… with the blood This was another unfortunate result of Saul’s hasty oath. So voracious did the people become by the evening time that, in their haste to satisfy their hunger, they waited not for proper dressing and cooking, but ate the sheep and oxen with the blood, thus violating an oft-repeated commandment of the law. See marginal references. The reading of the Keri ויעשׂ , from עושׂ , or עישׂ , to fly upon, after the analogy of 1 Samuel 15:19, is to be preferred before ויעשׂ of the Kethib, for עשׂה gives in this connexion, no good sense.
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