Leviticus 7:26

26 " 'No matter where you live, do not eat the blood 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 Do not eat the fat of any animal that is found dead. Do not eat the fat of an animal that wild animals have torn apart. But you can use the fat for any other purpose.
25 " 'Suppose an animal has been sacrificed as an offering that is made to the LORD with fire. No one may eat its fat. If he does, he will be cut off from his people.
26 " 'No matter where you live, do not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
27 If anyone does, he will be cut off from his people.' "
28 The LORD spoke to Moses. He said,
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