Leviticus 3:17

New American Bible - revised edition

This shall be a perpetual ordinance for your descendants wherever they may dwell. You shall not eat any fat or any blood.

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

Only meat with its lifeblood still in it you shall not eat.

2 Chronicles 29:35

The burnt offerings were indeed many, along with the fat of the communion offerings and the libations for the burnt offerings. Thus the service of the house of the Lord was re-established.

Nehemiah 8:10

He continued: “Go, eat rich foods and drink sweet drinks, and allot portions to those who had nothing prepared; for today is holy to our Lord. Do not be saddened this day, for rejoicing in the Lord is your strength!”

Exodus 27:21

From evening to morning Aaron and his sons shall maintain them before the Lord in the tent of meeting, outside the veil which hangs in front of the covenant. This shall be a perpetual statute for the Israelites throughout their generations.

Exodus 28:43

Aaron and his sons shall wear them whenever they go into the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister in the sanctuary, lest they incur guilt and die. This shall be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants.

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You eat on the mountains, you raise your eyes to your idols, you shed blood—yet you would keep possession of the land?

Ezekiel 44:15

As for the levitical priests, sons of Zadok, who took charge of my sanctuary when the Israelites strayed from me, they may approach me to serve me and stand before me to offer the fat and the blood—oracle of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 44:7

You have admitted foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, into my sanctuary to profane it when you offered me food, the fat and blood. Thus you have broken my covenant by all your abominations.

Leviticus 10:15

The leg of the contribution and the brisket of the elevated offering shall be brought in with the oblations of fat to be raised as an elevated offering before the Lord. They shall belong to you and your children as your due forever, as the Lord has commanded.”

Leviticus 10:9

When you are to go to the tent of meeting, you and your sons are forbidden, by a perpetual statute throughout your generations, to drink any wine or strong drink, lest you die.

Leviticus 16:29

This shall be an everlasting statute for you: on the tenth day of the seventh month every one of you, whether a native or a resident alien, shall humble yourselves and shall do no work.

Leviticus 16:34

This, then, shall be an everlasting statute for you: once a year atonement shall be made on behalf of the Israelites for all their sins. And Moses did as the Lord had commanded him.

Leviticus 17:7

No longer shall they offer their sacrifices to the demons with whom they prostituted themselves. This shall be an everlasting statute for them and their descendants.

Leviticus 19:26

Do not eat anything with the blood still in it. Do not recite charms or practice soothsaying.

Leviticus 23:14

You shall not eat any bread or roasted grain or fresh kernels until this day, when you bring the offering for your God. This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations wherever you dwell. Pentecost.

Leviticus 23:21

On this same day you shall make a proclamation: there shall be a declared holy day for you; no heavy work may be done. This shall be a perpetual statute through all your generations wherever you dwell.

Leviticus 24:3

In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that hangs in front of the covenant, Aaron shall set up the lamp to burn before the Lord regularly, from evening till morning, by a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

Leviticus 24:9

It shall belong to Aaron and his sons, who must eat it in a sacred place, since it is most sacred, his as a perpetual due from the oblations to the Lord. Punishment of Blasphemy.

Leviticus 3:16

The priest shall burn these on the altar as food, a sweet-smelling oblation. All the fat belongs to the Lord.

Leviticus 4:1

The Lord said to Moses:

Leviticus 6:15

The anointed priest descended from Aaron who succeeds him shall do likewise. This is the Lord’s due forever. The offering shall be wholly burned.

Leviticus 6:18

Tell Aaron and his sons: This is the ritual for the purification offering. At the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, there also, before the Lord, shall the purification offering be slaughtered. It is most holy.

Leviticus 6:22

Every male of the priestly line may eat it. It is most holy.

Leviticus 7:23

Tell the Israelites: You shall not eat the fat of any ox or sheep or goat.

Leviticus 7:34

for from the communion sacrifices of the Israelites I have taken the brisket that is elevated and the leg that is a contribution, and I have given them to Aaron, the priest, and to his sons as their due from the Israelites forever.

Leviticus 7:36

which the Lord ordered to be given them from the Israelites on the day they were anointed, as their due throughout their generations forever. Summary.

Numbers 19:21

This will be a permanent statute for you. Those who sprinkle the purification water will wash their garments, and those who come in contact with the purification water will be unclean until evening.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Matthew 26:28

for this is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins.

Acts 15:29

namely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage. If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell.’” Delegates at Antioch.

Ephesians 1:7

In him we have redemption by his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, in accord with the riches of his grace

Ephesians 5:26

to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word,

Deuteronomy 12:16

Only, you shall not eat of the blood, but must pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

But make sure that you do not eat of the blood; for blood is life; you shall not eat that life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 12:24

Do not eat of the blood, therefore, but pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 15:23

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

Deuteronomy 32:14

Butter from cows and milk from sheep, with the best of lambs; Bashan bulls and goats, with the cream of finest wheat; and the foaming blood of grapes you drank.

1 Timothy 4:4

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