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Leviticus 3:17

This is a perpetual statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.'"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blood;   Fat;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Blood;   Fat;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Blood;   Offerings;   Sacrifices;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fat;   Sacrifice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Fat;   Sacrifice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Expiation, Propitiation;   Leviticus;   Life;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Food;   Leviticus;   Life;   Priests and Levites;   Propitiation;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Blood;   Eternal Fire (2);   Pollution ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Fat;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Food;   Offering;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Fat;   Food;   Generation;   Unclean Meats;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Abstinence;   Animal;   Fat;   Offerings;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   Worship, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fat;   In;   Leviticus;   Perpetual;   Sacrifice;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Blood;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Blood Accusation;   Dietary Laws;   Fat;   Porging;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"
King James Version
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Lexham English Bible
This is a lasting statute for your generations in all your dwellings: you must not eat any fat or any blood.'"
New Century Version
"‘This law will continue for people from now on, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or blood.'"
New English Translation
This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.'"
Amplified Bible
'It is a permanent statute for your generations wherever you may be, that you shall not eat any fat or any blood.'"
New American Standard Bible
'It is a permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.'"
Geneva Bible (1587)
This shalbe a perpetual ordinance for your generations, throughout al your dwellings, so that ye shall eate neither fatte nor blood.
Legacy Standard Bible
It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your places of habitation: you shall 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.
Complete Jewish Bible
It is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations wherever you live that you will eat neither fat nor blood.'"
Darby Translation
[It is] an everlasting statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings: no fat and no blood shall ye eat.
Easy-to-Read Version
This rule will continue forever through all your generations. Wherever you live, you must never eat fat or blood."
English Standard Version
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood."
George Lamsa Translation
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings that you eat neither fat nor blood.
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.
Christian Standard Bible®
This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”
Literal Translation
It shall be a never ending statute for your generations in all your dwellings. You shall not eat any fat or any blood.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All the fatt is the LORDES. Let this be a perpetuall lawe amonge yor posterities in all youre dwellynges, that ye eate no fatt, ner bloude.
American Standard Version
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let it be a perpetuall statute for your generations throughout your dwellynges, yt ye eate neither fat nor blood.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
King James Version (1611)
It shall be a perpetuall statute for your generations, throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat, nor blood.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your habitations; ye shall eat no fat and no blood.
English Revised Version
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
by euerlastynge riyt in generaciouns, and in alle youre dwellyng placis, nether in ony maner ye schulen ete blood, nethir fatnesse.
Young's Literal Translation
`A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.'
Update Bible Version
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.
Webster's Bible Translation
[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
World English Bible
"'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"
New King James Version
"This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor blood."'
New Living Translation
"You must never eat any fat or blood. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation, wherever you live."
New Life Bible
It will be a Law forever for all your people in all your houses, that you do not eat any fat or any blood.'"
New Revised Standard
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
An age-abiding statute to your generations, in all your dwellings, - none of the fat nor of the blood, shall ye eat.
Douay-Rheims Bible
By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.
Revised Standard Version
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood."
THE MESSAGE
The Peace-Offering "If your offering is a Peace-Offering and you present an animal from the herd, either male or female, it must be an animal without any defect. Lay your hand on the head of your offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron's sons, the priests, will throw the blood on all sides of the Altar. As a Fire-Gift to God from the Peace-Offering, present all the fat that covers or is connected to the entrails, the two kidneys and the fat around them at the loins, and the lobe of the liver that is removed along with the kidneys. Aaron and his sons will burn it on the Altar along with the Whole-Burnt-Offering that is on the wood prepared for the fire: a Fire-Gift, a pleasing fragrance to God . "If your Peace-Offering to God comes from the flock, bring a male or female without defect. If you offer a lamb, offer it to God . Lay your hand on the head of your offering and slaughter it at the Tent of Meeting. The sons of Aaron will throw its blood on all sides of the Altar. As a Fire-Gift to God from the Peace-Offering, present its fat, the entire fat tail cut off close to the backbone, all the fat on and connected to the entrails, the two kidneys and the fat around them on the loins, and the lobe of the liver which is removed along with the kidneys. The priest will burn it on the Altar: a meal, a Fire-Gift to God . "If the offering is a goat, bring it into the presence of God , lay your hand on its head, and slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron's sons will throw the blood on all sides of the Altar. As a Fire-Gift to God present the fat that covers and is connected to the entrails, the two kidneys and the fat which is around them on the loins, and the lobe of the liver which is removed along with the kidneys. The priest will burn them on the Altar: a meal, a Fire-Gift, a pleasing fragrance. "All the fat belongs to God . This is the fixed rule down through the generations, wherever you happen to live: Don't eat the fat; don't eat the blood. None of it."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.'"

Contextual Overview

6If, however, one's peace offering to the LORD is from the flock, he must present a male or female without blemish. 7If he is presenting a lamb for his offering, he must present it before the LORD. 8He is to lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar. 9And from the peace offering he shall bring an offering made by fire to the LORD consisting of its fat: the entire fat tail cut off close to the backbone, the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat on the entrails, 10both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys. 11Then the priest is to burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 12If one's offering is a goat, he is to present it before the LORD. 13He must lay his hand on its head and slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar. 14And from his offering he shall present an offering made by fire to the LORD: the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat that is on them, 15both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he will also remove with the kidneys.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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, Leviticus 7:25-27, Leviticus 17:10-14, Genesis 9:4, Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 12:23, Deuteronomy 15:23, 1 Samuel 14:32-34, Ezekiel 33:25, Ezekiel 44:7, Ezekiel 44:15, Matthew 16:24, Matthew 26:28, Acts 15:20, Acts 15:21, Acts 15:29, Ephesians 1:7, Ephesians 5:26, 1 Timothy 4:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:4 - fat Exodus 27:21 - a statute for ever Leviticus 7:26 - ye shall eat Leviticus 7:34 - by a statute Leviticus 10:9 - it shall be Leviticus 19:26 - with the blood 2 Chronicles 29:31 - sacrifices

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
Genesis 3:3
but of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.'"
Genesis 3:5
"For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
Genesis 3:9
So the LORD God called out to the man, "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:11
"Who told you that you were naked?" asked the LORD God. "Have you eaten of the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?"
Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied, "and I ate."
Genesis 3:14
So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said: "I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. You will desire your husband, and he will rule over you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations,.... That is, unto the end of the Mosaic dispensation, until the Messiah comes, and his sacrifice is offered up, and his blood is shed, till that time in all generations: and

throughout all your dwellings; wherever their habitations should be, it is a law to be observed:

that ye eat neither fat nor blood; the Jewish writers think, that this is not to be restrained to the fat and blood of sacrifices, because these were not offered in their dwellings, but in the tabernacle and temple, and therefore interpret it of fat and blood in general; but what fat and blood are meant may be seen in Leviticus 7:23 the Targum of Jonathan adds,

"but upon the top of the altar it shall be offered to the name of the Lord,''

which seems to restrain it to the sacrifices.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Blood - See Leviticus 17:11 note.

Throughout all your dwellings - The suet was neither to be eaten in sacrificial meals in the sanctuary, nor in ordinary meals in private houses.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 3:17. That ye eat neither fat nor blood. — It is not likely that the fat should be forbidden in the same manner and in the same latitude as the blood. The blood was the life of the beast, and that was offered to make an atonement for their souls; consequently, this was never eaten in all their generations: but it was impossible to separate the fat from the flesh, which in many parts is so intimately intermixed with the muscular fibres; but the blood, being contained in separate vessels, the arteries and veins, might with great ease be entirely removed by cutting the throat of the animal, which was the Jewish method. By the fat therefore mentioned here and in the preceding verse, we may understand any fat that exists in a separate or unmixed state, such as the omentum or caul, the fat of the mesentery, the fat on the kidneys, and whatever else of the internal fat was easily separable, together with the whole of the tail already described. And probably it was the fat of such animals only as were offered to God in sacrifice, that was unlawful to be eaten.

As all temporal as well as spiritual blessings come from God, he has a right to require that such of them should be dedicated to his service as he may think proper to demand. He required the most perfect of all the animals, and the best parts of these perfect animals. This he did, not that he needed any thing, but to show the perfection of his nature and the purity of his service. Had he condescended to receive the meanest animals and the meanest parts of animals as his offerings, what opinion could his worshippers have entertained of the perfection of his nature? If such imperfect offerings were worthy of this God, then his nature must be only worthy of such offerings. It is necessary that every thing employed in the worship of God should be the most perfect of its kind that the time and circumstances can afford. As sensible things are generally the medium through which spiritual impressions are made, and the impression usually partakes of the nature of the medium through which these impressions are communicated; hence every thing should not only be decent, but as far as circumstances will admit dignified, in the worship of God: the object of religious worship, the place in which he is worshipped, and the worship itself, should have the strongest and most impressive correspondence possible.


 
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