Leviticus 7:23
“Tell the Israelites,‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.
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- Lev 3:16-17 : 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. 17 This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”
- Lev 4:8-9 : 8 “‘Then he must take up all the fat from the sin offering bull: the fat covering the entrails and all the fat surrounding the entrails, 9 the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys) 10 – just as it is taken from the ox of the peace offering sacrifice– and the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering.
- Lev 17:6 : 6 The 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.
- Deut 32:38 : 38 who ate the best of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise and help you; let them be your refuge!
- 1 Sam 2:15-17 : 15 Also, before they burned the fat the priest’s attendant would come and say to the person who was making the sacrifice,“Give some meat for the priest to roast! He won’t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.” 16 If the individual said to him,“They should certainly burn the fat away first, then take for yourself whatever you wish,” he would say,“No! Give it now! If not, I’ll take it by force!” 17 The sin of these young men was very great in the LORD’s sight, for they treated the LORD’s offering with contempt.
- 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Why are you scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than you have me by having made yourselves fat from the best parts of all the offerings of my people Israel.’
- Acts 28:27 : 27 For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.”’
- Rom 8:13 : 13 (for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.
- Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.
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24 Moreover, 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.
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.’”
28 Priestly Portions of Peace Offerings Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
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22 Sacrificial Instructions for the Common People: Fat and Blood Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
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1 Clean and Unclean Land Creatures The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them,
2 “Tell the Israelites:‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.
3 You may eat any among the animals that has a divided hoof(the hooves are completely split in two) and that also chews the cud.
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- Lev 3:14-174 verses76%
14 Then 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,
15 the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys).
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.
17 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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21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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3 Then the one making the offering must present all its fat: the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails,
4 the two kidneys and the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he must remove along with the kidneys).
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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,
- Lev 7:19-202 verses73%
19 The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.
20 The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people.
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13 You 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.
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3 Then tell the Israelites:‘Take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and lamb, both a year old and flawless, for a burnt offering,
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3 You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the choice animals, but you do not feed the sheep!
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21 “The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says to the people of Judah:‘You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!
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1 You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the LORD your God.
- Deut 14:6-72 verses72%
6 You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.
7 However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger.(Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).
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24 The Sin Offering Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
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31 “You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.
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19 As for the fat parts from the ox and from the ram(the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails, the kidneys, and the protruding lobe of the liver),
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26 The LORD spoke to Moses:
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19 “‘Then the priest must take all its fat and offer the fat up in smoke on the altar.
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17 Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.
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16 Then he took all the fat on the entrails, the protruding lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and Moses offered it all up in smoke on the altar,
- Lev 4:8-92 verses71%
8 “‘Then he must take up all the fat from the sin offering bull: the fat covering the entrails and all the fat surrounding the entrails,
9 the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys)
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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.
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23 However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!
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19 if it is to be acceptable for your benefit it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats.
- Lev 3:3-42 verses71%
3 Then 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,
4 the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys).
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2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When someone among you presents an offering to the LORD, you must present your offering from the domesticated animals, either from the herd or from the flock.
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8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
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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.
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17 But 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.
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4 But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.
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18 You 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.
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42 You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.