George Leo Haydock, on Jdt 11:11

“And they have a design even to kill their cattle, and to drink the blood of them.”

“Drink. Greek, “and all that God had forbidden them to eat by his laws, (Haydock) without making any distinction between the clean and unclean. (Grotius) — Blood was prohibited even before the law, Genesis ix. 4., and Leviticus xvii. 14. (Calmet)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.