Leviticus 19:26

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹ֥א תֹאכְל֖וּ עַל־הַדָּ֑ם לֹ֥א תְנַחֲשׁ֖וּ וְלֹ֥א תְעוֹנֵֽנוּ

Transliteration

lōʾ ṯōʾḵəlû ʿal-haddām lōʾ ṯənaḥăšû wə-lōʾ ṯəʿônēnû

Grammar Details

• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *ṯōʾḵəlû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall eat
• *ʿal*: preposition - with/over
• *haddām*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the blood
• *ṯənaḥăšû*: Piel imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall practice divination
• *wə-lōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *ṯəʿônēnû*: Poel imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall practice soothsaying

Word Meanings

• *ṯōʾḵəlû* *ʿal*-*haddām*: eat with blood/eat over blood/eat blood-containing meat
• *ṯənaḥăšû*: practice divination/observe omens/use enchantments/read signs
• *ṯəʿônēnû*: practice soothsaying/use witchcraft/tell fortunes/practice magic

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 17:17 : 17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
• Deut 12:23 : 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.
• 2 Kgs 21:6 : 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
• 2 Chr 33:6 : 6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
• Lev 3:17 : 17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
• Lev 7:26 : 26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
• Lev 17:10-14 : 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 cut him off from among his peop. 11 For the life of the fsh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. 13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. 14 For it is the life of all fsh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of fsh: for the life of all fsh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
• Exod 7:11 : 11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
• Exod 8:7 : 7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
• Jer 10:2 : 2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
• Dan 2:10 : 10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
• Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Deut 18:10-14 : 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. 14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
• 1 Sam 15:23 : 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.