Leviticus 19:26

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Summary

Leviticus 19:26

Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

With the blood

Use

Nor

General references

Exodus 22:18

Leviticus 19:31

Nehemiah 10:35

Bible References

With the blood

This is a long lasting law for generations to come wherever you live. Never eat any fat or blood.'

Never eat the blood of any bird or animal no matter where you live.

If Israelites or foreigners eat any blood, I will condemn them and exclude them from the people.

Make sure you never eat blood, because blood contains life. Never eat the life with the meat.

Use

Then Pharaoh sent for his wise men and sorcerers. These Egyptian magicians did the same thing using their magic spells.

But the magicians used their secret powers to do the same thing.

The sin of divination is rebellion. Wickedness and idolatry are arrogance. They are evil. Because you rejected the word of Jehovah, he rejects you as king.

This is what Jehovah says: Do not learn the practices of the nations. Do not be frightened by the signs in the sky because they frighten the nations.

The Chaldeans answered: There is no man on earth who can do what the king requires. No king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.

I will approach you people for judgment! I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers and those acting fraudulently with the wages of the worker, the widow and the fatherless. I will be a speedy witness against those who swear falsely and take advantage of the stranger, and do not show me reverence, said Jehovah of Hosts.

Nor

Do not sacrifice your children in the fires on your altars. Do not let your people practice divination or look for omens or use spells or charms.

They caused their sons and their daughters to go through the fire to be sacrificed. They made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of Jehovah, till they provoked him to anger.

He made his own son pass through fire. He burned him as an offering to Molech. He practiced reading the future; gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers. He did much evil in the eyes of Jehovah and provoked him to anger.

He burned his son as a sacrifice in the valley of Ben Hinnom, he consulted fortunetellers, and he cast evil spells. He also practiced witchcraft, and appointed royal mediums and psychics. He did many things that made Jehovah furious.

General references

Never allow a witch to live.

Do not turn to psychics or mediums to get help. That will make you unclean. I am Jehovah your God.

To take the first fruits of our land, and the first fruits of every sort of tree, year by year, into the house of Jehovah.