Leviticus 7:26

26 You are not to eat any kind of blood, whether from birds or animals, in any of your homes.

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 animals that die of themselves or are killed by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but under no circumstances are you to eat it.
25 For whoever eats the fat of animals of the kind used in presenting an offering made by fire to ADONAI will be cut off from his people.
26 You are not to eat any kind of blood, whether from birds or animals, in any of your homes.
27 Whoever eats any blood will be cut off from his people.'"
28 ADONAI said to Moshe,
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