Leviticus 7:26

26 "Never eat the blood of any bird or animal no matter where you 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 from an animal that dies naturally or is killed by wild animals you may use for any other purpose, but you must never eat it.
25 Those who eat the fat from an animal which they sacrificed by fire to the LORD must be excluded from the people.
26 "Never eat the blood of any bird or animal no matter where you live.
27 Those who eat any blood must be excluded from the people."
28 The LORD spoke to Moses,
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