Leviticus 7:26

26 Moreover you shall not eat the blood of any creature whatsoever, whether of birds or beasts.

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 a carcass that hath died of itself, and of a beast that was caught by another beast, you shall have for divers uses.
25 If any man eat the fat that should be offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord, he shall perish out of his people.
26 Moreover you shall not eat the blood of any creature whatsoever, whether of birds or beasts.
27 Every one that eateth blood, shall perish from among the people.
28 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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