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Fat and Blood Forbidden

Leviticus 7:23

In 11 translations

BSB
“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.
KJV
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
WEB
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat.
ASV
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.
LSV
“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, You do not eat any fat of ox, and sheep, and goat;
YLT
'Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Any fat of ox and sheep and goat ye do not eat;
DBY
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, No fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat shall ye eat.
DRC
Say to the children of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not eat.
GNV
Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say, Ye shall eate no fat of beeues, nor of sheepe, nor of goates:
JPS
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: Ye shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.
LXXE
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no fat of oxen or sheep or goats.

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Original-language editions

WLC
דַּבֵּ֛ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר כָּל־חֵ֜לֶב שׁ֥וֹר וְכֶ֛שֶׂב וָעֵ֖ז לֹ֥א תֹאכֵֽלוּ׃
LXX-Br
λάλησον τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἰσραὴλ, λέγων, πᾶν στέαρ βοῶν, καὶ προβάτων, καὶ αἰγῶν οὐκ ἔδεσθε.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Leviticus 3:16–17Then the priest is to burn the food on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD’s. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat…
  • Deuteronomy 32:38which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!
  • Romans 8:13For 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.
  • Leviticus 4:8–10Then he shall remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering—the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them, both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is…
  • 1 Samuel 2:15–17Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.” And if…
  • Acts 28:27For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and…
  • 1 Samuel 2:29Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
  • Leviticus 17:6The priest will then sprinkle the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
  • Romans 13:13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

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  • 7:13 in some Bibles
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