Verse 23

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, You shall not eat any fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

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  • Lev 3:16-17 : 16 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the fire offering for a pleasing aroma: all the fat is the LORD's. 17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood.
  • Lev 4:8-9 : 8 And he shall take from it all the fat of the bull for the sin offering, the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails, 9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the fatty lobe above the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away, 10 As it was taken off from the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of burnt offering.
  • Lev 17:6 : 6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and burn the fat for a sweet aroma to the LORD.
  • Deut 32:38 : 38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
  • 1 Sam 2:15-17 : 15 Also, before they burned the fat, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who sacrificed, Give meat to roast for the priest, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but raw. 16 And if any man said to him, Let them burn the fat first and then take as much as you want; then he would answer him, No, but you shall give it to me now: and if not, I will take it by force. 17 Therefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD; for men despised the offering of the LORD.
  • 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Why do you scorn my sacrifice and my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?
  • Acts 28:27 : 27 For the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, so that I should 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 walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.