Leviticus 7:26

26 And in any of your dwellings, you must not eat any blood {belonging to} birds or domestic animals.

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 and a dead body's fat or mangled carcass's fat may be used for any {purpose}, but you certainly must not eat it.

25 When anyone eats fat from the domestic animal from which he presented an offering made by fire for Yahweh, then that person who ate shall be cut off from his people.

26 And in any of your dwellings, you must not eat any blood {belonging to} birds or domestic animals.

27 Any person who eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.'"

28 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Footnotes

• [a]. Plural
• [b]. Literally "to/of"
• [c]. Hebrew "the bird"; generic article with a collective noun
• [d]. Or "and"
• [e]. Hebrew "the domestic animal"; generic article with a collective noun