Leviticus 3:17

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Summary

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

A perpetual

Eat neither

Leviticus 3:16

Deuteronomy 32:14

Nehemiah 8:10

Blood

Bible References

A perpetual

Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it; it is a permanent ordinance throughout your generations, from the offerings by fire to the Lord. Whoever touches them will become consecrated.’”

These the Lord had commanded to be given them from the sons of Israel in the day that He anointed them. It is their due forever throughout their generations.’”

Now you shall have this as a permanent statute, to make atonement for the sons of Israel for all their sins once every year.” And just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so he did.

They shall no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat demons with which they play the harlot. This shall be a permanent statute to them throughout their generations.”’

Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

So it shall be a perpetual statute for them. And he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

Eat neither

The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire for a soothing aroma; all fat is the Lord’s.

Curds of cows, and milk of the flock,
With fat of lambs,
And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats,

With the finest of the wheat—

And of the blood of grapes you drank wine.

Then he said to them, “Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Blood

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall not eat any fat from an ox, a sheep or a goat.

‘And any man from the house of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.

Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

Only you shall not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

The people rushed greedily upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols as you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

when you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to profane it, even My house, when you offered My food, the fat and the blood; for they made My covenant void—this in addition to all your abominations.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.

for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.

but that we write to them that they abstain from

things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;