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 children of Aaron may have it for food; it is their right for ever through all your generations, from the offerings made by fire to the Lord: anyone touching them will be holy.

Which the Lord said the children of Israel were to give them, on the day when he made them his priests. It is their right for ever from generation to generation.

And let this be an order for ever for you, so that the sin of the children of Israel may be taken away once every year. And he did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.

And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living

This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the water on the unclean person is to have his clothing washed; and anyone touching the water will be unclean till evening.

Eat neither

That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet smell: all the fat is the Lord's.

Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.

Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.

Blood

Say to the children of Israel: You are not to take any fat, of ox or sheep or goat, for food.

And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.

But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

And rushing at the goods taken in the fight, the people took oxen and sheep and young oxen, and put them to death there on the earth, and had a meal, taking the flesh with the blood in it.

For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?

To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.

Take of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the testament, which is given for men for the forgiveness of sins.

But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise: