Leviticus 3:17

17 [This is] a lasting statute for your generations in all your dwellings: you must not eat any fat or any blood.'"

Leviticus 3:17 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 3:17

[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations,
&c.] That is, unto the end of the Mosaic dispensation, until the Messiah comes, and his sacrifice is offered up, and his blood is shed, till that time in all generations: and

throughout all your dwellings;
wherever their habitations should be, it is a law to be observed:

that ye eat neither fat nor blood;
the Jewish writers think, that this is not to be restrained to the fat and blood of sacrifices, because these were not offered in their dwellings, but in the tabernacle and temple, and therefore interpret it of fat and blood in general; but what fat and blood are meant may be seen in ( Leviticus 7:23-27 ) the Targum of Jonathan adds,

``but upon the top of the altar it shall be offered to the name of the Lord,''

which seems to restrain it to the sacrifices.

Leviticus 3:17 In-Context

15 the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] on them, which [is] on the loins, and he must remove the lobe on the liver in addition to the kidneys.
16 The priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar [as] a food [offering]; all the fat [is] an offering made by fire [as] an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh.
17 [This is] a lasting statute for your generations in all your dwellings: you must not eat any fat or any blood.'"

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