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Leviticus 3:17

Leviticus 3:17
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Blood - See Lev 17:11 note. Throughout all your dwellings - The suet was neither to be eaten in sacrificial meals in the sanctuary, nor in ordinary meals in private houses.

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

That ye eat neither fat nor blood - It is not likely that the fat should be forbidden in the same manner and in the same latitude as the blood. The blood was the life of the beast, and that was…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Leviticus 3:6-17

Directions are here given concerning the peace-offering, if it was a sheep or a goat. Turtle-doves or young pigeons, which might be brought for whole burnt offerings, were not allowed for…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Fat and blood forbidden

The prohibition is repeated more fully in Lev 7:23-27; cp. Lev 17:10 f. Note the 2nd pers. plur., and for the expression -a perpetual statute, etc." cp. Lev 23:14; Lev 23:21;…