Leviticus Chapter 3 verse 17 Holy Bible
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
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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.
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[It is] an everlasting statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings: no fat and no blood shall ye eat.
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It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
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It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
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"'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"
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`A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - Eat neither fat nor blood. These are forbidden to be eaten, as belonging to God. The fat, that is, the internal fat, is his portion in the common feast of the peace offering, and the blood is presented to him in all the animal sacrifices, as the material vehicle of life (see Leviticus 7:22-27). The remaining regulations as to the various sorts of the peace offerings, the priests' portions of them, and the festive meal on the sacrifices, are given in Leviticus 7:11-34.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) A perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings.--Better, a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings; so the Authorised Version in the only three other passages in which it occurs. (Comp. Leviticus 23:14; Leviticus 23:21, where it is inverted; and 31.) That is, the law not to eat fat of beeves, sheep, or goats, is to be binding upon the Israelites throughout all their future generations, and is applicable to any place wherever they may dwell. As the full legislative formula only occurs four times in the Pentateuch, and is restricted to this book, it is important to render it uniformly in all the four passages. For the import of this statute see Leviticus 7:23-25.
