Firstly, Lev 17:11 confirms the above assumption because it assumes that the offerer is personally involved in the blood manipulation. Perhaps behind this relationship between the offerer and the sancta there lies an idea that the sancta invariably represent the people. Secondly, the passage declares that blood contains life-essence. However, that purification should not be pictured as neutralizing death by life is indicated by the fact that the hattat blood itself can symbolize death in a substitutionary