Leviticus 3:17

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Let it be a perpetuall statute for your generations throughout your dwellynges, yt ye eate neither fat nor blood.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חֻקַּ֤ת עוֹלָם֙ לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם בְּכֹ֖ל מֽוֹשְׁבֹתֵיכֶ֑ם כָּל־חֵ֥לֶב וְכָל־דָּ֖ם לֹ֥א תֹאכֵֽלוּ׃

Transliteration

ḥuqqat ʿôlām for your dōrōt in all your môšābōt: all ḥēleb and all dām not tōʾkēlû.

Grammar Details

• *ḥuqqat*: feminine singular construct - 'statute of'
• *ʿôlām*: masculine singular noun - 'eternity/perpetuity'
• לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶם: preposition + masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - 'for your generations'
• בְּכֹל: preposition + construct state - 'in all'
• *môšābōt*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - 'your dwelling places'
• כָּל: construct state - 'all of'
• *ḥēleb*: masculine singular noun - 'fat'
• וְכָל: conjunction + construct state - 'and all of'
• *dām*: masculine singular noun - 'blood'
• לֹא: negative particle - 'not'
• *tōʾkēlû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - 'you shall eat'

Word Meanings

• *ḥuqqat*: statute/ordinance/decree/prescribed limit
• *ʿôlām*: long duration/forever/perpetuity/eternity
• *dōrōt*: generations/periods/ages
• *môšābōt*: dwelling places/settlements/habitations
• *ḥēleb*: fat/best part
• *dām*: blood
• *tōʾkēlû*: you shall eat/consume/devour

Referenced Verses

• Gen 9:4 : 4 But flesh in the life therof which is the blood therof, shall ye not eate.
• Lev 6:18 : 18 All the males among the chyldren of Aaron shall eate of it: It shalbe a statute for euer in your generations concerning the sacrifice of the Lorde made by fire: let euery one that toucheth it, be holy.
• Lev 17:7 : 7 And let them no more offer their offeringes vnto deuyls, after whom they haue gone a whoryng: This shalbe an ordinaunce for euer vnto them in their generations.
• Deut 12:16 : 16 Only ye shall not eate the blood, but powre it vpon the earth as water.
• Deut 12:23 : 23 But be strong, that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eate the life with the fleshe.
• Deut 15:23 : 23 Only eate not the blood therof: but powre it vpon the grounde as water.
• Lev 7:36 : 36 And these be the portions whiche the Lorde commaunded to be geuen them in the day of their annoynting from among the chyldren of Israel, by a statute for euer in their generations.
• Lev 3:16 : 16 And the priest shall burne them vpon the aulter, for the foode of the sacrifice made by fire for a sweete sauour: All the fat is the Lordes.
• Lev 23:14 : 14 And ye shal eate neither bread nor parched corne, nor greene eares, vntyl ye selfe same day that ye haue brought an offering vnto your God: Let this be a lawe for euer in your generations, and in all your dwellynges.
• Matt 26:28 : 28 For this is my blood, whiche is of the newe testament, that is shedde for many, for the remission of sinnes.
• Acts 15:29 : 29 That ye abstayne from thynges offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication: From which yf ye kepe your selues, ye shall do well. So fare ye well.
• Eph 1:7 : 7 In whom we haue redemption through his blood, the forgeuenesse of sinnes, accordyng to the rychesse of his grace,
• Eph 5:26 : 26 To sanctifie it, clensyng it in the fountayne of water in the worde,
• 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For euery creature of God is good, and nothyng to be refused, yf it be receaued with thankes geuyng.
• Acts 15:20-21 : 20 But that we write vnto them, that they absteyne themselues from fylthynesse of idols, and fro fornication, and from strangled, and from blood. 21 For Moyses of olde tyme, hath in euery citie, them that preache hym in the synagogues, when he is read euery Sabboth day.
• Num 19:21 : 21 And it shalbe a perpetuall lawe vnto them, that he that sprinckleth the water of seperation, shall washe his clothes: and he that toucheth the water of seperation, shalbe vncleane vntyll euen.
• Lev 7:23 : 23 Speake vnto the chyldren of Israel, and say: Ye shall eate no maner fat of beeues, of sheepe, and of goates.
• Lev 7:25-27 : 25 For whosoeuer eateth the fat of the beast, of which men vse to bryng an offering made by fire vnto the Lorde: that soule that eateth it, shall be cut of from his people. 26 Moreouer, ye shall eate no maner of blood, whether it be of foule or of beast, in any your dwellynges. 27 Whatsoeuer soule it be that eateth any maner of blood, the same soule shall be cut of from his people.
• Lev 16:34 : 34 And this shalbe an euerlastyng ordinaunce vnto you, to make an attonement for the chyldren of Israel for all their sinnes once a yere. And he dyd as the Lorde commaunded Moyses.
• Lev 17:10-16 : 10 And whatsoeuer man it be of the house of Israel, or of the straungers that soiourne among you, that eateth any maner of blood, I wyll set my face against that soule that eateth blood, and wyll cut hym of from among his people: 11 For the life of the fleshe is in the blood, and I haue geuen it vnto you vpon the aulter, to make an attonement for your soules: for this blood shall make an attonement for the soule. 12 Therfore I sayd vnto the chyldren of Israel: Let no soule of you eate blood, neither let any straunger that soiourneth among you, eate blood. 13 And whatsoeuer man it be of the chyldren of Israel, or of the straungers that soiourne among you, whiche hunteth and catcheth any beast or foule that may be eaten, let hym powre out the blood thereof, and couer it with dust. 14 For the lyfe of the fleshe is the blood of it ioyned with his lyfe: therefore I sayde vnto the chyldren of Israel, ye shal eate the blood of no maner of flesh, for the life of all fleshe is the blood therof: whosoeuer eateth it, shalbe cut of. 15 And euery soule that eateth it whiche dyed alone, or that whiche was torne with wylde beastes, whether it be one of your owne countrey, or a straunger, he shall washe his clothes, and bathe hym selfe in water, and be vncleane vnto the euen: and then shall he be cleane. 16 If he washe them not, nor bathe his fleshe, he shall beare his sinne.
• Deut 32:14 : 14 With butter of kine, and mylke of the sheepe, with fat of the lambes, and fat of rammes and hee goates, with the fat of the most plenteous wheate, and that thou myghtest drynke the most pure blood of the grape.
• 1 Sam 14:32-34 : 32 And the people gat them to the spoyle, and toke sheepe, oxen, and calues, & slue them on the ground, and the people dyd eate them with the blood. 33 Then men tolde Saul, saying: Behold, the people sinne against the Lorde, in that they eate with the blood. And he sayde, Ye haue trespassed: Rowle a great stone vnto me this day. 34 And Saul sayde againe: Go abrode among the people, and bid them bring me euery man his oxe, and euery man his sheepe, and slay them here, and eate, and sinne not against the Lorde in eating with the blood. And the people brought euery man his oxe in his hande that night, and slue them there.
• Neh 8:10 : 10 And he saide vnto them: Go your way, and eate the fat, and drinke the sweete, and send part vnto them also that haue not prepared for them selues, for this day is holy vnto our Lorde: be not ye sory therefore, for the ioy of the Lorde is your strength.
• Ezek 33:25 : 25 And therefore tel them, thus saith the Lorde God, In the blood haue ye eaten, your eyes haue ye lift vp to idols, and haue shed blood: shall ye then haue the lande in possession?
• Ezek 44:7 : 7 Seeing ye haue brought into my sanctuary straungers hauing vncircumcized heartes and vncircumcized fleshe, to be in my sanctuarie to pollute my house, when ye offer my bread, fat, and blood, and they haue broken my couenaunt because of all your abhominations:
• Ezek 44:15 : 15 But the priestes, the Leuites, the sonnes of Sadoc that kept the charge of my sanctuarie when the children of Israel straied from me, shal come to me to do me seruice, to stand before me, and to offer me the fat and the blood, saith the Lorde God.
• Matt 16:24 : 24 Then sayde Iesus vnto his disciples: If any man wyll folowe me, let hym forsake him selfe, and take vp his crosse, and folowe me.