Leviticus 3:17

World English Bible (2000)

"'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat 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 with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
• Lev 6:18 : 18 Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.'"
• Lev 17:7 : 7 They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.'
• Deut 12:16 : 16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
• Deut 12:23 : 23 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
• Deut 15:23 : 23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.
• Lev 7:36 : 36 which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations.
• Lev 3:16 : 16 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is Yahweh's.
• Lev 23:14 : 14 You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
• Matt 26:28 : 28 for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
• Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."
• Eph 1:7 : 7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
• Eph 5:26 : 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
• 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
• Acts 15:20-21 : 20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood. 21 For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath."
• Num 19:21 : 21 It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
• Lev 7:23 : 23 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat.
• Lev 7:25-27 : 25 For whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people. 26 You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. 27 Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"
• Lev 16:34 : 34 "This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.
• Lev 17:10-16 : 10 "'Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his 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 souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. 12 Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, "No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood." 13 "'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust. 14 For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, "You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off." 15 "'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean. 16 But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'"
• Deut 32:14 : 14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
• 1 Sam 14:32-34 : 32 and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood. 33 Then they told Saul, saying, "Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood." He said, "You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me this day!" 34 Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, 'Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh in eating meat with the blood.'" All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.
• Neh 8:10 : 10 Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don't be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength."
• Ezek 33:25 : 25 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
• Ezek 44:7 : 7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all your abominations.
• Ezek 44:15 : 15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh:
• Matt 16:24 : 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.