Leviticus 3:17
This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
“‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- a perpetual
- Leviticus 6:18; Leviticus 7:36; Leviticus 16:34; Leviticus 17:7; Leviticus 23:14; Numbers 19:21
- eat neither
- That is, neither the blood which is contained in the larger veins and arteries, nor the fat or suet which is within the animal, which exists in a separate or unmixed state, as the {omentum} or {caul,} the fat of the {mesentery,} or fatty part of the substance which connects the convolutions of the alimentary canal or small intestines, the fat of the kidneys, and whatever else of the internal fat was easily separable, together with the whole of the tail already described; for the blood which assumes the form of gravy, and the fat which is intermixed with the other flesh, might be eaten. This law not only related to the sacrifices, but to all the cattle which the Israelites slaughtered for food.
- Leviticus 3:16; Deuteronomy 32:14; Nehemiah 8:10
- blood
- Leviticus 7:23, 25–27; Leviticus 17:10–14; Genesis 9:4; Deuteronomy 12:16, 23; Deuteronomy 15:23; 1 Samuel 14:32–34; Ezekiel 33:25; Ezekiel 44:7, 15; Matthew 16:24; Matthew 26:28; Acts 15:20, 21, 29; Ephesians 1:7; Ephesians 5:26; 1 Timothy 4:4