Leviticus 7:26

26 Wherever you live, you must not eat the blood[a] of any bird or animal.

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 dies naturally or is mauled by wild beasts may be used for any purpose, but you must not eat it.
25 If anyone eats animal fat from a fire offering presented to the Lord, the person who eats [it] must be cut off from his people.
26 Wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
27 Whoever eats any blood, that person must be cut off from his people."
28 The Lord spoke to Moses:

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Lv 17:10-12; Gn 9:3-4; Dt 12:16,23
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