Leviticus 3:17

17 “ ‘This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.’ ”

Leviticus 3:17 in Other Translations

17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

17 It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood."

17 “You must never eat any fat or blood. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation, wherever you live.”

17 This is the fixed rule down through the generations, wherever you happen to live: Don't eat the fat; don't eat the blood. None of it."

17 This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood."

Leviticus 3:17 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 3:17

[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations,
&c.] That is, unto the end of the Mosaic dispensation, until the Messiah comes, and his sacrifice is offered up, and his blood is shed, till that time in all generations: and

throughout all your dwellings;
wherever their habitations should be, it is a law to be observed:

that ye eat neither fat nor blood;
the Jewish writers think, that this is not to be restrained to the fat and blood of sacrifices, because these were not offered in their dwellings, but in the tabernacle and temple, and therefore interpret it of fat and blood in general; but what fat and blood are meant may be seen in ( Leviticus 7:23-27 ) the Targum of Jonathan adds,

``but upon the top of the altar it shall be offered to the name of the Lord,''

which seems to restrain it to the sacrifices.

Leviticus 3:17 In-Context

15 both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which you will remove with the kidneys.

16 The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD’s.

17 “ ‘This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.’ ”

Cross References

• 1. S Exodus 12:14; S Exodus 27:21
• 2. S Genesis 9:12; Leviticus 6:18; Leviticus 17:7
• 3. S Exodus 12:20
• 4. Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 7:25-26; Leviticus 17:10-16; Deuteronomy 12:16; Acts 15:20