◄ Leviticus 3:17 ►
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Good News Translation
No Israelite may eat any fat or any blood; this is a rule to be kept forever by all Israelites wherever they live.

New Revised Standard Version
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.

Contemporary English Version
So you and your descendants must never eat any fat or any blood, not even in the privacy of your own homes. This law will never change.

New American Bible
This shall be a perpetual ordinance for your descendants wherever they may dwell. You shall not eat any fat or any blood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.

a perpetual

Leviticus 6:18 The males only of the race of Aaron shall eat it. It shall be an ordinance everlasting in your generations concerning the sacrifices of the Lord: Every one that toucheth them shall be sanctified.

Leviticus 7:36 And the things that the Lord commanded to be given them by the children of Israel, by a perpetual observance in their generations.

Leviticus 16:34 And this shall be an ordinance for ever, that you pray for the children of Israel, and for all their sins once a year. He did therefore as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Leviticus 17:7 And they shall no more sacrifice their victims to devils, with whom they have committed fornication. It shall be an ordinance for ever to them and to their posterity.

Leviticus 23:14 You shall not eat either bread, or parched corn, or frumenty or the harvest, until the day that you shall offer thereof to your God. It is a precept for ever throughout your generations, and all your dwellings.

Numbers 19:21 This precept shall be an ordinance for ever. He also that sprinkled the water, shall wash his garments. Every one that shall touch the waters of expiation, shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 3:16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of the fire, and of a most sweet savour. All the fat shall be the Lord's.

Deuteronomy 32:14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.

Nehemiah 8:10 And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and send portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it is the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is our strength.

blood

Leviticus 7:23,25-27 Say to the children of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not eat. . . .

Leviticus 17:10-14 If any man whosoever of the house of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn among them, eat blood, I will set my face against his soul, and will cut him off from among his people. . . .

Genesis 9:4 Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

Deuteronomy 12:16,23 Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. . . .

Deuteronomy 15:23 Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out on the earth as water.

1 Samuel 14:32-34 And falling upon the spoils, they took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people ate them with the blood. . . .

Ezekiel 33:25 Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: You that eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and that shed blood: shall you possess the land by inheritance?

Ezekiel 44:7,15 In that you have brought in strangers uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to defile my house: and you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood: and you have broken my covenant by all your wicked doings. . . .

Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many unto remission of sins.

Acts 15:20,21,29 But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood. . . .

Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of his, grace,

Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life:

1 Timothy 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving:

Context
Laws for Peace Offerings
…16And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of the fire, and of a most sweet savour. All the fat shall be the Lord's. 17By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.
Cross References
Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.

Exodus 27:21
In the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that hangs before the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall order it, that it may give light before the Lord until the morning. It shall be a perpetual observance throughout their successions among the children of Israel.

Leviticus 4:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Leviticus 6:18
The males only of the race of Aaron shall eat it. It shall be an ordinance everlasting in your generations concerning the sacrifices of the Lord: Every one that toucheth them shall be sanctified.

Leviticus 6:22
And the priest that rightfully succeedeth his father, shall offer it hot, for a most sweet odour to the Lord: and it shall he wholly burnt on the altar.

Leviticus 7:23
Say to the children of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not eat.

Leviticus 7:26
Moreover you shall not eat the blood of any creature whatsoever, whether of birds or beasts.

Leviticus 7:34
For the breast that is elevated and the shoulder that is separated I have taken of the children of Israel, from off their victims of peace offerings: and have given them to Aaron the priest, and to his sons, by a law for ever, from all the people of Israel.

Leviticus 7:36
And the things that the Lord commanded to be given them by the children of Israel, by a perpetual observance in their generations.

Leviticus 10:9
You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations:

Leviticus 10:15
Because they have elevated before the Lord the shoulder and the breast, and the fat that is burnt on the altar: and they belong to thee and to thy sons by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded.

Leviticus 16:29
And this shall be to you an everlasting ordinance. The seventh month, the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no work, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you.

Leviticus 17:7
And they shall no more sacrifice their victims to devils, with whom they have committed fornication. It shall be an ordinance for ever to them and to their posterity.

Leviticus 17:10
If any man whosoever of the house of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn among them, eat blood, I will set my face against his soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 23:14
You shall not eat either bread, or parched corn, or frumenty or the harvest, until the day that you shall offer thereof to your God. It is a precept for ever throughout your generations, and all your dwellings.

Leviticus 23:21
And you shall call this day most solemn, and most holy. You shall do no servile work therein. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in all your dwellings and generations.

Leviticus 24:3
Without the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of the covenant. And Aaron shall set them from evening until morning before the Lord, by a perpetual service and rite in your generations.

1 Samuel 14:32
And falling upon the spoils, they took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people ate them with the blood.

Ezekiel 44:15
But the priests, and Levites, the sons of Sadoc, who kept the ceremonies of my sanctuary, when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me, to minister to me: and they shall stand before me, to offer me the fat, and the blood, saith the Lord God.

Leviticus 3:16
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