Leviticus 7:26

26 And don't eat blood, whether of birds or animals, no matter where you end up living.

Leviticus 7:26 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 7:26

Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood
Of any of the above creatures, or any other, even of any clean creature, and much less of an unclean one:

[whether it be] of fowl or of beast;
of all sorts and kinds. Jarchi thinks, the words being thus expressed, the blood of fishes and locusts is excepted, and so lawful to eat:

in any of your dwellings;
this shows that this law is not to be restrained to creatures slain in sacrifice in the tabernacle, and to the blood of them, but to be understood of all such as were slain in their own houses for food, and the blood of them.

Leviticus 7:26 In-Context

24 The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals can be put to some other purpose, but you may not eat it.
25 If you eat fat from an animal from which a gift has been presented to God, you'll be excluded from the congregation.
26 And don't eat blood, whether of birds or animals, no matter where you end up living.
27 If you eat blood you'll be excluded from the congregation."
28 God spoke to Moses,
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