Leviticus 3:17
“It shall be a perpetuall statute for your generations, throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat, nor blood.”
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Leviticus 3:17 Context
15And the two kidneys, and the fat that is vpon them, which is by the flancks, and the caule aboue the liuer with the kidneys, it shall he take away. 16And the Priest shall burne them vpon the Altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet sauour: All the fat is the Lords. 17It shall be a perpetuall statute for your generations, throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat, nor blood.
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Other Translations for Leviticus 3:17
[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
- King James Version
'It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.'"
- New American Standard Version (1995)
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.
- Basic English Bible
[It is] an everlasting statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings: no fat and no blood shall ye eat.
- Darby Bible
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
- Webster's Bible
'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'
- World English Bible
`A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.'
- Youngs Literal Bible
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Leviticus 3:17
3:17 All your dwellings - Not only at or near the tabernacle, not only of those beasts which you actually sacrifice, but also in your several dwellings, and of all that kind of beasts. Fat - Was forbidden, To preserve the reverence of the holy rites and sacrifices. That they might be taught hereby to acknowledge God as their Lord, and the Lord of all the creatures, who might reserve what he pleased to himself. To exercise them in obedience to God, and self - denial and mortification of their appetites, even in those things which probably many of them would much desire. Blood - Was forbidden partly to maintain reverence to God and his worship; partly out of opposition to idolaters, who used to drink the blood of their sacrifices; partly with respect to Christ's Blood, thereby manifestly signified. God would not permit the very shadows of this to be used as a common thing. Nor will he allow us, tho' we have the comfort of the atonement made, to assume to ourselves any share in the honour of making it.