Leviticus 3:17

KJV

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

— Leviticus 3:17, King James Version
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Context

This verse from Leviticus Chapter 3 connects to 10 cross-references. The peace offering (fellowship offering) from the herd or flock involves the offerer slaughtering the animal, the priest splashing blood on the altar, and burning the fat portions. The eating of fat and blood is strictly prohibited for Israelites as …

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Other Translations

ASV

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.

YLT

`A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.'

BBE

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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