Leviticus 3:17 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁷ It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ This is a permanent rule for your future generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or blood.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ by a perpetual law, in your generations and in all of your habitations, neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.

Leviticus 3:17 Cross References

Genesis 9:4

Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

2 Chronicles 29:35

Besides the great number of burnt offerings there was the fat of the peace offerings, and there were the libations for the burnt offerings. Thus the service of the house of the Lord was restored.

Nehemiah 8:10

Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord; and do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Exodus 27:21

In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a statute for ever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel.

Exodus 28:43

and they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place; lest they bring guilt upon themselves and die. This shall be a perpetual statute for him and for his descendants after him.

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: You eat flesh with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?

Ezekiel 44:15

“But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall attend on me to offer me the fat and the blood, says the Lord God;

Ezekiel 44:7

in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning it, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.

Leviticus 10:15

The thigh that is offered and the breast that is waved they shall bring with the offerings by fire of the fat, to wave for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be yours, and your sons' with you, as a due for ever; as the Lord has commanded.”

Leviticus 10:9

“Drink no wine nor strong drink, you nor your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.

Leviticus 16:29

“And it shall be a statute to you for ever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves, and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you;

Leviticus 16:34

And this shall be an everlasting statute for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” And Moses did as the Lord commanded him.

Leviticus 17:7

So they shall no more slay their sacrifices for satyrs, after whom they play the harlot. This shall be a statute for ever to them throughout their generations.

Leviticus 19:26

“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.

Leviticus 23:14

And you shall eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Leviticus 23:21

And you shall make proclamation on the same day; you shall hold a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work: it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

Leviticus 24:3

Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.

Leviticus 24:9

And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the offerings by fire to the Lord, a perpetual due.”

Leviticus 3:16

And the priest shall burn them on the altar as food offered by fire for a pleasing odor. All fat is the Lord's.

Leviticus 4:1

And the Lord said to Moses,

Leviticus 6:15

And one shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the cereal offering with its oil and all the frankincense which is on the cereal offering, and burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a pleasing odor to the Lord.

Leviticus 6:18

Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed for ever throughout your generations, from the Lord's offerings by fire; whoever touches them shall become holy.”

Leviticus 6:22

The priest from among Aaron's sons, who is anointed to succeed him, shall offer it to the Lord as decreed for ever; the whole of it shall be burned.

Leviticus 7:23

“Say to the people of Israel, You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.

Leviticus 7:34

For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.

Leviticus 7:36

the Lord commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, on the day that they were anointed; it is a perpetual due throughout their generations.”

Numbers 19:21

And it shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Matthew 26:28

for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Ephesians 1:7

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

Ephesians 5:26

that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Deuteronomy 12:16

Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood; for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 12:24

You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 32:14

Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams, herds of Bashan and goats, with the finest of the wheat— and of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;