i had no idea that numbers 22 was related to blood libel. I had only heard of blood libel as a propaganda item used against "Red Jews" in the old Russian Kingdom before the bolshevik revolution
and even then i only heard of that from a history documentary
i have always been uneasy about things in reference to blood. Seed is one thing as its easy to imagine the idea of a small thing producing a large thing which then produces the small thing ad infinitum. But blood is something that must circulate and be set apart lest the whole body becomes corrupt and dies. So blood in essence is what is "ritually pure" in the body while the other tissues are of varying purity and function. One of my great interests while in school was biochemistry specifically biochemical engineering and the study of
Heme and biological coordination complexes similar to it (like Vitamin B12 and Chlorophyll)
i had a weird thought from the other thread, that some parts of the bible remind me of Heme, Heme uses
a single Iron atom to fix oxygen
so that it can transport it from a higher O2 pressure spaces (Lungs/heart) to low O2 pressure spaces (extremities, etc) its a very elegant but simple system