KJV King James Version
[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
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Leviticus 3:17
[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
WEB World English Bible
“‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”
ASV American Standard Version
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.’
Surrounding context — Leviticus 3
14 And he shall offer thereof his offering, [even] an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,
15 And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon them, which [is] by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: [it is] the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat [is] the LORD’S.
17 [It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
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Genesis 9:4But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.Matthew 26:28For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.Deuteronomy 15:23Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.Deuteronomy 12:23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.Leviticus 7:23Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.Leviticus 3:16And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: [it is] the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat [is] the LORD’S.Leviticus 6:18All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. [It shall be] a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.Leviticus 17:7And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.Deuteronomy 12:16Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.Leviticus 7:36Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, [by] a statute for ever throughout their generations.Ezekiel 44:15But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:Ezekiel 33:25Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?Ephesians 5:26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,Leviticus 17:10-16And whatsoever man [there be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.Leviticus 23:14And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.Acts 15:29That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.Deuteronomy 32:14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.Ephesians 1:7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
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