Leviticus 7:26

26 You must not eat any blood whatever, either of bird or of animal, in any of your settlements.

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 died or was torn by wild animals may be put to any other use, but you must not eat it.
25 If any one of you eats the fat from an animal of which an offering by fire may be made to the Lord, you who eat it shall be cut off from your kin.
26 You must not eat any blood whatever, either of bird or of animal, in any of your settlements.
27 Any one of you who eats any blood shall be cut off from your kin.
28 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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