Leviticus 7:26

26 '1You are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.

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 'Also the fat of an animal which dies and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but you must certainly not eat it.
25 'For whoever eats the fat of the animal from which an offering by fire is offered to the LORD , even the person who eats shall be cut off from his people.
26 'You are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.
27 'Any person who eats any blood, even that person shall be cut off from his people.' "
28 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Cross References 1

  • 1. Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 17:10-16; Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 12:23; 1 Samuel 14:33; Acts 15:20
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