Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “’This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any 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.” English Standard Version It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.” Berean Standard Bible This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.” King James Bible It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye 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 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.’” NASB 1995 ‘It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’” NASB 1977 ‘It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any 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.’” Amplified Bible It is a permanent statute for your generations wherever you may be, that you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’” Christian Standard Bible This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood.” Holman Christian Standard Bible This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood.” American Standard Version It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor 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. English Revised Version It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood. GOD'S WORD® Translation This is a permanent law for generations to come wherever you live: Never eat any fat or 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. International Standard Version "This is to be a lasting statute for all your generations, wherever you live. You are not to eat any fat or blood." Majority Standard Bible This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.? NET Bible This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.'" New Heart English Bible "'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.’” Literal Translations Literal Standard Version[This is] a continuous statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you do not eat any fat or any blood.” Young's Literal Translation 'A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.' Smith's Literal Translation A law forever to your generations in all your dwellings, all the fat and all the blood, ye shall not eat. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleBy a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all. Catholic Public Domain Version by a perpetual law, in your generations and in all of your habitations, neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all. New American Bible This shall be a perpetual ordinance for your descendants wherever they may dwell. You shall not eat any fat or any blood. New Revised Standard Version It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleIt shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings that you eat neither fat nor blood. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated A covenant to eternity for your generations in every place of your dwellings; you shall eat no fat and no blood." OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood. Brenton Septuagint Translation It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your habitations; ye shall eat no fat and no blood. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Laws for Peace Offerings…16Then the priest is to burn the food on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD’s. 17This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.” Cross References Leviticus 7:23-26 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat. / The fat of an animal found dead or mauled by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it. / If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering may be presented to the LORD, the one who eats it must be cut off from his people. ... Leviticus 17:10-14 If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people. / For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul. / Therefore I say to the Israelites, ‘None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.’ ... Deuteronomy 12:16 but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water. Deuteronomy 12:23-25 Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. / You must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water. / Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD. Genesis 9:4 But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it. Acts 15:28-29 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond these essential requirements: / You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell. 1 Samuel 14:32-34 So they rushed greedily to the plunder, taking sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them on the ground and ate meat with the blood still in it. / Then someone reported to Saul: “Look, the troops are sinning against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.” “You have broken faith,” said Saul. “Roll a large stone over here at once.” / Then he said, “Go among the troops and tell them, ‘Each man must bring me his ox or his sheep, slaughter them in this place, and then eat. Do not sin against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.’” So that night everyone brought his ox and slaughtered it there. Ezekiel 33:25 Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land? Deuteronomy 15:23 But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water. Leviticus 19:26 You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery. 1 Corinthians 10:31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. Romans 14:20-21 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block. / It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble. Acts 21:25 As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.” 1 Corinthians 8:8-13 But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do. / Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. / For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols? ... Mark 7:18-19 “Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him, / because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.) Treasury of Scripture It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood. a perpetual Leviticus 6:18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy. Leviticus 7:36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations. Leviticus 16:34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses. Leviticus 3:16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD'S. Deuteronomy 32:14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength. blood Leviticus 7:23,25-27 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat… Leviticus 17:10-14 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people… Genesis 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. Jump to Previous Age-During Blood Dwelling Dwellings Eat Everlasting Fat Food Generations Houses Lasting Order Ordinance Perpetual Places Statute Throughout WhereverJump to Next Age-During Blood Dwelling Dwellings Eat Everlasting Fat Food Generations Houses Lasting Order Ordinance Perpetual Places Statute Throughout WhereverLeviticus 3 1. The peace offering of the herd6. whether a sheep 7. whether a lamb 12. or a goat 17. A prohibition to eat fat or blood This is a permanent statute The phrase "permanent statute" indicates a law intended to be observed indefinitely. In the context of Leviticus, this reflects the enduring nature of God's commandments to Israel. The Hebrew word used here, "chukkat olam," suggests an ordinance that transcends time, emphasizing the unchanging nature of God's holiness and the need for His people to remain distinct. This concept of permanence is echoed in other parts of the Torah, such as the Sabbath (Exodus 31:16) and the Passover (Exodus 12:14). for the generations to come wherever you live You must not eat any fat or any blood. Persons / Places / Events 1. MosesThe prophet and leader of the Israelites who received the laws from God, including the dietary laws in Leviticus. 2. Israelites The chosen people of God to whom the laws were given, including the prohibition against eating fat and blood. 3. Tabernacle The place where sacrifices were made, and where the Israelites would have been reminded of these dietary laws. 4. Canaan The land promised to the Israelites, where they were to observe these statutes. 5. Priests The mediators between God and the Israelites, responsible for teaching and enforcing the laws. Teaching Points Respect for God's CommandsThe prohibition against eating fat and blood underscores the importance of obedience to God's laws, even when they may not be fully understood. Symbolism of Blood Blood represents life and atonement, pointing to the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Respecting this commandment helps us appreciate the gravity of Christ's sacrifice. Holiness and Distinction These dietary laws set the Israelites apart from other nations, reminding us of our call to be distinct and holy in our conduct. Gratitude for Provision Recognizing God's provision in the sacrificial system and dietary laws should lead us to gratitude for His care and sustenance. Continuity of God's Law The reaffirmation of these laws in the New Testament shows the consistency of God's expectations and the timeless nature of His principles.(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. Verse 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. |
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