Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 17:13

13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust ,

He instanceth in this kind, either because persons much given to that exercise are commonly too licentious, and being in haste might easily transgress, or because some might think the former prohibition did reach onely to the blood of such creatures as were offered to God in sacrifice.

Partly to beget an honourable respect unto the blood even of beasts, and much more of men; partly least the beasts should lick it up, and by tasting the sweetness of it be made more fierce and cruel to devour and destroy others; and partly as a license from God upon this condition giving them a right to kill and eat such creatures, without any fear of the blood being imputed to them; for as the not▪ covering of the blood portends the punishment which the sin of blood-shedding calls for, Iob 16. 18. Ezek. 24. [illegible: 1+ letters], 8. so covering it notes impunity.

Marginal references: Heb. that hunteth any hunting.; chap. 7. 26.