Leviticus 3:17

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This is a permanent statute for your generations in all your dwelling places: You must not eat any fat or blood.

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  • Gen 9:4 : 4 But you must not eat meat that still has its lifeblood in it.
  • Lev 6:18 : 18 Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying: This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the LORD. It is most holy.
  • Lev 17:7 : 7 They must no longer offer their sacrifices to goat-demons, after whom they have been unfaithful. This is to be a lasting ordinance for them and for their descendants.
  • Deut 12:16 : 16 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
  • Deut 12:23 : 23 But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
  • Deut 15:23 : 23 However, you must not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
  • Lev 7:36 : 36 On the day they were anointed, the Lord commanded that the Israelites give this to them as their perpetual share for all generations to come.
  • Lev 3:16 : 16 The priest shall burn them on the altar as food, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD. All the fat belongs to the LORD.
  • Lev 23:14 : 14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is a perpetual statute for your generations in all your dwellings.
  • Matt 26:28 : 28 This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
  • Eph 1:7 : 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,
  • Eph 5:26 : 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing of water through the word,
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
  • Acts 15:20-21 : 20 Instead, we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, sexual immorality, meat that has been strangled, and blood. 21 For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every city from ancient generations, being read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.
  • Num 19:21 : 21 This shall be a permanent statute for them. The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and anyone who touches the water of purification will remain unclean until evening.
  • Lev 7:23 : 23 Speak to the Israelites and say: You must not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep, or goats.
  • Lev 7:25-27 : 25 Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering to the Lord is made must be cut off from their people. 26 And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal. 27 Anyone who eats blood must be cut off from their people.
  • Lev 16:34 : 34 This shall be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement for the Israelites for all their sins once a year." And it was done as the LORD commanded Moses.
  • Lev 17:10-16 : 10 Any Israelite or foreigner living among them who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person and cut them off from their people. 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. 12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood. 13 Any Israelite or foreigner living among you who hunts and catches a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood and cover it with earth. 14 For the life of every creature is in its blood, and I have told the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is in its blood. Anyone who eats it must be cut off. 15 Anyone, whether native or foreigner, who eats an animal that died naturally or was torn by wild animals must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and they will remain unclean until evening. Then they will be clean. 16 But if they do not wash their clothes and bathe themselves, they will bear their guilt.
  • Deut 32:14 : 14 Curds from cattle and milk from the flock, with fat from lambs, rams of Bashan breed, and goats, with the finest wheat, and you drank the blood of the grape as wine.
  • 1 Sam 14:32-34 : 32 They pounced on the plunder and took sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them on the ground and ate them, along with the blood. 33 Someone reported to Saul, 'Look, the troops are sinning against the Lord by eating meat with blood in it.' Saul said, 'You have broken faith. Roll a large stone over here to me at once.' 34 Then he said, 'Go among the men and tell them, ‘Each of you bring me your ox and sheep, and slaughter them here and eat. Do not sin against the Lord by eating meat with blood in it.’' That night, everyone brought their oxen and slaughtered them there.
  • Neh 8:10 : 10 Nehemiah said, 'Go and celebrate with rich foods and sweet drinks, and send portions to those who have nothing prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.'
  • Ezek 33:25 : 25 Therefore, say to them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: You eat meat with the blood still in it, you look to your idols, and you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?'
  • Ezek 44:7 : 7 When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in My sanctuary and profane it—My house—by offering My food, the fat, and the blood, you broke My covenant with all your abominations.
  • Ezek 44:15 : 15 But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok who faithfully preserved the charge of My sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from Me, shall come near Me to serve Me. They shall stand in My presence to offer fat and blood, declares the Lord GOD.
  • Matt 16:24 : 24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 3:14-16
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    81%

    14From it, he is to present his offering as a fire offering to the LORD: the fat that covers the internal organs and all the fat that is on the internal organs,

    15both kidneys and the fat on them by the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.

    16The priest shall burn them on the altar as food, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD. All the fat belongs to the LORD.

  • Lev 7:23-28
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    23Speak to the Israelites and say: You must not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep, or goats.

    24The fat of an animal found dead and the fat of an animal torn by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose but must not be eaten.

    25Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering to the Lord is made must be cut off from their people.

    26And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.

    27Anyone who eats blood must be cut off from their people.

    28Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Lev 17:10-14
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    10Any Israelite or foreigner living among them who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person and cut them off from their people.

    11For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

    12Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.

    13Any Israelite or foreigner living among you who hunts and catches a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood and cover it with earth.

    14For the life of every creature is in its blood, and I have told the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is in its blood. Anyone who eats it must be cut off.

  • Deut 12:23-24
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    23But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

    24You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Gen 9:4
    78%

    4But you must not eat meat that still has its lifeblood in it.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
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    76%

    18You shall eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all fattened animals from Bashan.

    19You will eat fat until you are satisfied and drink blood until you are drunk, from the sacrifice that I have prepared for you.

  • Lev 19:26
    75%

    26Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. Do not practice divination or seek omens.

  • Deut 15:23
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    23However, you must not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Deut 12:16
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    16But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Exod 23:18
    73%

    18Do not offer the blood of my sacrifice along with anything containing yeast, and do not leave the fat of my festival offering until morning.

  • Deut 12:27
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    27Offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat the meat.

  • Num 18:17-18
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    72%

    17But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    18Their meat shall be yours, just like the breast of the wave offering and the right thigh are yours.

  • Ezek 33:25
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    25Therefore, say to them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: You eat meat with the blood still in it, you look to your idols, and you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?'

  • Exod 29:13
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    13Then take all the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.

  • Lev 3:3
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    3From the peace offering, he is to present a fire offering to the LORD: the fat that covers the internal organs and all the fat that is on the internal organs;

  • Lev 17:3
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    3Anyone from the house of Israel who sacrifices an ox, a lamb, or a goat in the camp, or outside the camp,

  • Deut 14:3
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    3You shall not eat any detestable thing.

  • Lev 23:31
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    31You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute for your generations in all your dwellings.

  • Lev 6:23
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    23But any sin offering whose blood is brought to the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the holy place must not be eaten; it must be burned in the fire.

  • Lev 23:14
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    14You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is a perpetual statute for your generations in all your dwellings.

  • Num 35:29
    70%

    29These are to be legal requirements for you throughout your generations in all your settlements.

  • Lev 4:19
    70%

    19The priest shall remove all the fat from it and burn it on the altar.

  • Lev 10:18
    70%

    18Since its blood was not brought inside the sanctuary, you should have eaten it in the holy place as I commanded.

  • Lev 7:3
    70%

    3All its fat shall be offered, including the fat tail and the fat covering the inner parts.

  • Lev 3:11
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    11The priest shall burn them on the altar as food, a fire offering to the LORD.

  • Lev 17:6
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    6The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting and burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

  • Num 18:10
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    10'You must eat it in a most holy place. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you.'