Leviticus 3:17

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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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  • Gen 9:4 : 4 But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
  • Lev 6:18 : 18 Say to Aaron and his sons, This is the law for the sin-offering: the sin-offering is to be put to death before the Lord in the same place as the burned offering; it is most holy.
  • Lev 17:7 : 7 And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.
  • Deut 12:16 : 16 But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.
  • Deut 12:23 : 23 But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.
  • Deut 15:23 : 23 Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
  • Lev 7:36 : 36 Which the Lord said the children of Israel were to give them, on the day when he made them his priests. It is their right for ever from generation to generation.
  • Lev 3:16 : 16 That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet smell: all the fat is the Lord's.
  • Lev 23:14 : 14 And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.
  • Matt 26:28 : 28 Take of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the testament, which is given for men for the forgiveness of sins.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.
  • Eph 1:7 : 7 In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,
  • Eph 5:26 : 26 So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:
  • Acts 15:20-21 : 20 But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood. 21 For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.
  • Num 19:21 : 21 This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the water on the unclean person is to have his clothing washed; and anyone touching the water will be unclean till evening.
  • Lev 7:23 : 23 Say to the children of Israel: You are not to take any fat, of ox or sheep or goat, for food.
  • Lev 7:25-27 : 25 For anyone who takes as food the fat of any beast of which men make an offering by fire to the Lord, will be cut off from his people. 26 And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses. 27 Whoever takes any blood for food will be cut off from his people.
  • Lev 16:34 : 34 And let this be an order for ever for you, so that the sin of the children of Israel may be taken away once every year. And he did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
  • Lev 17:10-16 : 10 And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people. 11 For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it. 12 For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food. 13 And any man of Israel, or any other living among them, who gets with his bow any beast or bird used for food, is to see that its blood is covered with earth. 14 For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of. 15 And anyone who takes as food anything which has come to a natural end, or anything which has been put to death by beasts, if he is one of you by birth, or of another nation, will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening, and then he will be clean. 16 But if his clothing is not washed and his body bathed, his sin will be on him.
  • Deut 32:14 : 14 Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.
  • 1 Sam 14:32-34 : 32 And rushing at the goods taken in the fight, the people took oxen and sheep and young oxen, and put them to death there on the earth, and had a meal, taking the flesh with the blood in it. 33 Then it was said to Saul, See, the people are sinning against the Lord, taking the blood with the flesh. And he said to those who gave him the news, Now let a great stone be rolled to me here. 34 And Saul said, Go about among the people and say to them, Let every man come here to me with his ox and his sheep, and put them to death here, and take his meal: do no sin against the Lord by taking the blood with the flesh. So all the people took their oxen with them that night and put them to death there.
  • Neh 8:10 : 10 Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
  • Ezek 33:25 : 25 For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?
  • Ezek 44:7 : 7 To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken.
  • Ezek 44:15 : 15 But as for the priests, the sons of Zadok, who took care of my holy place when the children of Israel were turned away from me, they are to come near me to do my work, they will take their places before me, offering to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord;
  • Matt 16:24 : 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 3:14-16
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    14And of it let him make his offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts,

    15And the two kidneys, with the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, let him take away;

    16That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet smell: all the fat is the Lord's.

  • Lev 7:23-28
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    23Say to the children of Israel: You are not to take any fat, of ox or sheep or goat, for food.

    24And the fat of that which comes to a natural death, and the fat of that which is attacked by beasts, may be used for other purposes, but not in any way for food.

    25For anyone who takes as food the fat of any beast of which men make an offering by fire to the Lord, will be cut off from his people.

    26And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.

    27Whoever takes any blood for food will be cut off from his people.

    28And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 17:10-14
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    10And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.

    11For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.

    12For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food.

    13And any man of Israel, or any other living among them, who gets with his bow any beast or bird used for food, is to see that its blood is covered with earth.

    14For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.

  • Deut 12:23-24
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    23But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

    24Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

  • Gen 9:4
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    4But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
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    18The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.

    19You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you.

  • Lev 19:26
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    26Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

  • Deut 15:23
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    23Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

  • Deut 12:16
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    16But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

  • Exod 23:18
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    18Do not give the blood of my offering with leavened bread; and do not let the fat of my feast be kept all night till the morning.

  • Deut 12:27
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    27Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.

  • Num 18:17-18
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    17But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord.

    18Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and the right leg, it is to be yours.

  • Ezek 33:25
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    25For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?

  • Exod 29:13
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    13And take all the fat covering the inside of the ox, and the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and let them be burned on the altar;

  • Lev 3:3
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    3And he is to give of the peace-offering, as an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts,

  • Lev 17:3
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    3If any man of Israel puts to death an ox or a lamb or a goat, in or outside the tent-circle;

  • Deut 14:3
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    3No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Lev 23:31
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    31You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living.

  • Lev 6:23
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    23No sin-offering, the blood of which is taken into the Tent of meeting, to take away sin in the holy place, may be used for food: it is to be burned with fire.

  • Lev 23:14
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    14And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.

  • Num 35:29
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    29These rules are to be your guide in judging through all your generations wherever you may be living.

  • Lev 4:19
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    19And he is to take off all its fat, burning it on the altar.

  • Lev 10:18
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    18See, its blood was not taken into the holy place: certainly it was right for you to have taken it as food in the holy place, as I gave orders.

  • Lev 7:3
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    3And all the fat of it, the fat tail and the fat covering the inside parts, is to be given as an offering.

  • Lev 3:11
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    11That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire to the Lord.

  • Lev 17:6
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    6And the priest will put blood on the altar of the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting, burning the fat for a sweet smell to the Lord.

  • Num 18:10
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    10As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.