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Leviticus 7:26

No matter where you live, you must never consume the blood of any bird or animal.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blood;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Blood;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Birds;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fat;   Sacrifice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Offerings and Sacrifices;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Wave Offerings;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Thank Offering;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Birds of Abomination;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Food;   Leviticus;   Propitiation;   Sacrifice and Offering;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Food;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Cooking;   Food;   Unclean Meats;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Animal;   Offerings;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Worship, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Blood;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Blood Accusation;   Commandments, the 613;   Dietary Laws;   Porging;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
King James Version
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Lexham English Bible
And in any of your dwellings, you must not eat any blood belonging to birds or domestic animals.
New Century Version
No matter where you live, you must not eat blood from any bird or animal.
New English Translation
And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.
Amplified Bible
'Moreover, you are not to eat any blood [of any kind], whether of bird or animal, in any of your dwelling places.
New American Standard Bible
'And you are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Neither shall ye eate any blood, either of foule, or of beast in all your dwellings.
Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall not eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your places of habitation.
Contemporary English Version
And no matter where you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal,
Complete Jewish Bible
You are not to eat any kind of blood, whether from birds or animals, in any of your homes.
Darby Translation
And no blood shall ye eat in any of your dwellings, whether it be of fowl or of cattle.
Easy-to-Read Version
"No matter where you live, you must never eat blood from any bird or any animal.
English Standard Version
Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.
George Lamsa Translation
Moreover you shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Good News Translation
No matter where the Israelites live, they must never use the blood of birds or animals for food.
Christian Standard Bible®
Wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
Literal Translation
And you shall not eat any blood in all your dwellings, of fowl, or of animal.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Morouer, ye shall eate no bloude, nether of catell, ner of foules, where so euer ye dwell.
American Standard Version
And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of bird or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Bible in Basic English
And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moreouer, ye shall eate no maner of blood, whether it be of foule or of beast, in any your dwellynges.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
King James Version (1611)
Moreouer ye shall eat no maner of blood, whether it bee of foule or of beast in any of your dwellings.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
as the Lord commanded to give to them in the day in which he anointed them of the sons of Israel, a perpetual statute through their generations.
English Revised Version
And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Berean Standard Bible
You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also ye schulen not take in mete the blood of ony beeste, as wel of briddis as of beestis;
Young's Literal Translation
`And any blood ye do not eat in all your dwellings, of fowl, or of beast;
Update Bible Version
And you shall eat no manner of blood, whether it is of bird or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover, ye shall eat no manner of blood, [whether] of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
World English Bible
You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
New King James Version
Moreover you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, whether of bird or beast.
New Life Bible
Do not eat any blood, of bird or animal, in any of your houses.
New Revised Standard
You must not eat any blood whatever, either of bird or of animal, in any of your settlements.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And no manner of blood, shall ye eat, in any of your dwellings, - whether of bird or of beast:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover you shall not eat the blood of any creature whatsoever, whether of birds or beasts.
Revised Standard Version
Moreover you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.

Contextual Overview

11 "These are the instructions regarding the different kinds of peace offerings that may be presented to the Lord . 12 If you present your peace offering as an expression of thanksgiving, the usual animal sacrifice must be accompanied by various kinds of bread made without yeast—thin cakes mixed with olive oil, wafers spread with oil, and cakes made of choice flour mixed with olive oil. 13 This peace offering of thanksgiving must also be accompanied by loaves of bread made with yeast. 14 One of each kind of bread must be presented as a gift to the Lord . It will then belong to the priest who splatters the blood of the peace offering against the altar. 15 The meat of the peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the same day it is offered. None of it may be saved for the next morning. 16 "If you bring an offering to fulfill a vow or as a voluntary offering, the meat must be eaten on the same day the sacrifice is offered, but whatever is left over may be eaten on the second day. 17 Any meat left over until the third day must be completely burned up. 18 If any of the meat from the peace offering is eaten on the third day, the person who presented it will not be accepted by the Lord . You will receive no credit for offering it. By then the meat will be contaminated; if you eat it, you will be punished for your sin. 19 "Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean may not be eaten; it must be completely burned up. The rest of the meat may be eaten, but only by people who are ceremonially clean. 20 If you are ceremonially unclean and you eat meat from a peace offering that was presented to the Lord , you will be cut off from the community.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye shall eat: The prohibition of the fat or suet, which was restricted to animals offered in sacrifice, taught reverence to the altar and ordinances of God; but that of blood, which was extended to all land animals, had especial respect to the atoning blood of the sacrifice, and of the great antitype which the sacrifice prefigured. Leviticus 3:17, Leviticus 17:10-14, Genesis 9:4, 1 Samuel 14:33, 1 Samuel 14:34, Ezekiel 33:25, John 6:53, Acts 15:20, Acts 15:29, Ephesians 1:7, 1 Timothy 4:4

Reciprocal: Leviticus 9:21 - the breasts Leviticus 17:13 - which hunteth Leviticus 19:26 - with the blood Deuteronomy 12:16 - General Deuteronomy 15:23 - General 1 Samuel 14:32 - did eat

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood,.... Of any of the above creatures, or any other, even of any clean creature, and much less of an unclean one:

[whether it be] of fowl or of beast; of all sorts and kinds. Jarchi thinks, the words being thus expressed, the blood of fishes and locusts is excepted, and so lawful to eat:

in any of your dwellings; this shows that this law is not to be restrained to creatures slain in sacrifice in the tabernacle, and to the blood of them, but to be understood of all such as were slain in their own houses for food, and the blood of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

No manner of blood - See Leviticus 17:10-15.


 
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