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Leviticus 3:17

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

KJV

jure perpetuo in generationibus, et cunctis habitaculis vestris : nec sanguinem nec adipem omnino comedetis.

Vulgate

νόμιμον εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα εἰς τὰς γενεὰς ὑμῶν ἐν πάσῃ κατοικίᾳ ὑμῶν· πᾶν στέαρ καὶ πᾶν αἷμα οὐκ ἔδεσθε.

LXX

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

ASV

חֻקַּ֤ת עוֹלָם֙ לְ/דֹרֹ֣תֵי/כֶ֔ם בְּ/כֹ֖ל מֽוֹשְׁבֹתֵי/כֶ֑ם כָּל חֵ֥לֶב וְ/כָל דָּ֖ם לֹ֥א תֹאכֵֽלוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

וֹ
v
noun · 356×
חֵ֨לֶב֙
chlb
noun · 91×
י
y
noun · 105×
כֶ֔ם
km
noun · 164×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 811×
ם
m
noun · 44×
עוֹלָֽם
'vlm
noun · 427×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 14:32 — And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
  • Acts 15:20 — But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
  • Acts 15:29 — That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
  • Deut 12:16 — Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
  • Deut 12:23 — Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
  • Deut 15:23 — Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
  • Deut 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.
  • Eph 1:7 — In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
  • Eph 5:26 — That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
  • Exod 27:21 — In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto th
  • Ezek 33:25 — Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
  • Ezek 33:25 — Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
  • Ezek 44:15 — But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall sta
  • Gen 9:4 — But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
  • Gen 9:4 — But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
  • Lev 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.
  • Lev 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 h
  • Lev 7:23 — Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
  • Lev 7:26 — Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
  • Lev 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.
  • Lev 17:7 — And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
  • Lev 17:10 — 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 c
  • Lev 17:10 — 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 c
  • Lev 19:26 — Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
  • Lev 23:14 — And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in a
  • Matt 26:28 — For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.