Leviticus 3:17

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This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”

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  • Gen 9:4 : 4 But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.
  • Lev 6:18 : 18 Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion throughout your generations from the gifts of the LORD. Anyone who touches these gifts must be holy.’”
  • Lev 17:7 : 7 So they must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons, acting like prostitutes by going after them. This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.
  • Deut 12:16 : 16 However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.
  • Deut 12:23 : 23 However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!
  • Deut 15:23 : 23 However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.
  • Lev 7:36 : 36 This is what the LORD commanded to give to them from the Israelites on the day Moses anointed them– a perpetual allotted portion throughout their generations.
  • Lev 3:16 : 16 Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma– all the fat belongs to the LORD.
  • Lev 23:14 : 14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day, until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.
  • Matt 26:28 : 28 for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.
  • Eph 1:7 : 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace
  • Eph 5:26 : 26 to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
  • Acts 15:20-21 : 20 but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood. 21 For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every town from ancient times, because he is read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
  • Num 19:21 : 21 “‘So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.
  • Lev 7:23 : 23 “Tell the Israelites,‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.
  • Lev 7:25-27 : 25 If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people. 26 And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live. 27 Any person who eats any blood– that person will be cut off from his people.’”
  • Lev 16:34 : 34 This is to be a perpetual statute for you to make atonement for the Israelites for all their sins once a year.” So he did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  • Lev 17:10-16 : 10 Prohibition against Eating Blood“‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, 11 for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life. 12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood. 13 “‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil, 14 for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood– all who eat it will be cut off. 15 Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean. 16 But if he does not wash his clothes and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.’”
  • Deut 32:14 : 14 butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.
  • 1 Sam 14:32-34 : 32 So the army rushed greedily on the plunder, confiscating sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them right on the ground, and the army ate them blood and all. 33 Now it was reported to Saul,“Look, the army is sinning against the LORD by eating even the blood.” He said,“All of you have broken the covenant! Roll a large stone over here to me.” 34 Then Saul said,“Scatter out among the army and say to them,‘Each of you bring to me your ox and sheep and slaughter them in this spot and eat. But don’t sin against the LORD by eating the blood.” So that night each one brought his ox and slaughtered it there.
  • Neh 8:10 : 10 He said to them,“Go and eat delicacies and drink sweet drinks and send portions to those for whom nothing is 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 Sovereign LORD says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, pray to your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess the land?
  • Ezek 44:7 : 7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate it– even my house– when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.
  • Ezek 44:15 : 15 The Levitical Priests“‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the Sovereign LORD.
  • Matt 16:24 : 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples,“If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

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  • Lev 3:14-16
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    14Then he must present from it his offering as a gift to the LORD: the fat which covers the entrails and all the fat on the entrails,

    15the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys).

    16Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma– all the fat belongs to the LORD.

  • Lev 7:23-28
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    23“Tell the Israelites,‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.

    24Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must certainly never eat it.

    25If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.

    26And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.

    27Any person who eats any blood– that person will be cut off from his people.’”

    28Priestly Portions of Peace Offerings Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 17:10-14
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    10Prohibition against Eating Blood“‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people,

    11for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.

    12Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood.

    13“‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,

    14for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood– all who eat it will be cut off.

  • Deut 12:23-24
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    78%

    23However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!

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

  • Gen 9:4
    78%

    4But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
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    18You will eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the princes of the earth– the rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened animals of Bashan.

    19You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, at my slaughter which I have made for you.

  • Lev 19:26
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    26Blood, Hair, and Body“‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.

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

  • Deut 12:16
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    16However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Exod 23:18
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    18“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with bread containing yeast; the fat of my festal sacrifice must not remain until morning.

  • Deut 12:27
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    27You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; the blood of your other sacrifices you must pour out on his altar while you eat the meat.

  • Num 18:17-18
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    72%

    17But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    18And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours.

  • Ezek 33:25
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    25Therefore say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, pray to your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess the land?

  • Exod 29:13
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    13You are to take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the lobe that is above the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

  • Lev 3:3
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    3Then the one presenting the offering must present a gift to the LORD from the peace offering sacrifice: He must remove the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that surrounds the entrails,

  • Lev 17:3
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    3“Blood guilt will be accounted to any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,

  • Deut 14:3
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    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

  • Lev 23:31
    71%

    31You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

  • Lev 6:23
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    23Every grain offering of a priest must be a whole offering; it must not be eaten.”

  • Lev 23:14
    71%

    14You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day, until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

  • Lev 6:27
    70%

    27Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, you must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.

  • Num 35:29
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    29So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.

  • Lev 4:19
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    19“‘Then the priest must take all its fat and offer the fat up in smoke on the altar.

  • Lev 10:18
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    18See here! Its blood was not brought into the holy place within! You should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary just as I commanded!”

  • Lev 7:3
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    3Then the one making the offering must present all its fat: the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails,

  • Lev 3:11
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    11Then the priest must offer it up in smoke on the altar as a food gift to the LORD.

  • Lev 17:6
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    6The priest is to splash the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and offer the fat up in smoke for a soothing aroma to the LORD.

  • Num 18:10
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    10You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.

  • Lev 6:30
    69%

    30But any sin offering from which some of its blood is brought into the Meeting Tent to make atonement in the sanctuary must not be eaten. It must be burned up in the fire.