Leviticus 7:26

26 You must not consume any blood whatsoever—whether bird or animal blood—wherever you may live.

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 that has died naturally or the fat of an animal that was killed by another animal may be put to any use, but you must definitely not eat it.
25 If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which a food gift could be offered to the LORD, that person will be cut off from their people.
26 You must not consume any blood whatsoever—whether bird or animal blood—wherever you may live.
27 Any person who consumes any blood whatsoever will be cut off from their people.
28 The LORD said to Moses:
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