Leviticus 3:17
New International Version
“’This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.’”

New Living Translation
“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.”

English Standard Version
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”

Berean Standard Bible
This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”

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

New King James Version
This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”

New American Standard Bible
It is a permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’”

NASB 1995
‘It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’”

NASB 1977
‘It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’”

Legacy Standard Bible
It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your places of habitation: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’”

Amplified Bible
It is a permanent statute for your generations wherever you may be, that you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’”

Christian Standard Bible
This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”

American Standard Version
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A covenant to eternity for your generations in every place of your dwellings; you shall eat no fat and no blood."

Brenton Septuagint Translation
It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your habitations; ye shall eat no fat and no blood.

Contemporary English Version
So you and your descendants must never eat any fat or any blood, not even in the privacy of your own homes. This law will never change.

Douay-Rheims Bible
By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.

English Revised Version
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is a permanent law for generations to come wherever you live: Never eat any fat or blood."

Good News Translation
No Israelite may eat any fat or any blood; this is a rule to be kept forever by all Israelites wherever they live.

International Standard Version
"This is to be a lasting statute for all your generations, wherever you live. You are not to eat any fat or blood."

JPS Tanakh 1917
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.

Literal Standard Version
[This is] a continuous statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you do not eat any fat or any blood.”

Majority Standard Bible
This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”

New American Bible
This shall be a perpetual ordinance for your descendants wherever they may dwell. You shall not eat any fat or any blood.

NET Bible
This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.'"

New Revised Standard Version
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.

New Heart English Bible
"'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"

Webster's Bible Translation
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

World English Bible
“‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”

Young's Literal Translation
'A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Laws for Peace Offerings
16Then the priest is to burn the food on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD’s. 17This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”

Cross References
Acts 15:20
Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

Exodus 27:21
In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come.

Leviticus 4:1
Then the LORD said to Moses,

Leviticus 6:18
Any male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. This is a permanent portion from the offerings made by fire to the LORD for the generations to come. Anything that touches them will become holy."

Leviticus 6:22
The priest, who is one of Aaron's sons and will be anointed to take his place, is to prepare it. As a permanent portion for the LORD, it must be burned completely.

Leviticus 7:23
"Speak to the Israelites and say, 'You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.

Leviticus 7:26
You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.


Treasury of Scripture

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

a perpetual

Leviticus 6:18
All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.

Leviticus 7:36
Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.

Leviticus 16:34
And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.

Leviticus 3:16
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD'S.

Deuteronomy 32:14
Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

blood

Leviticus 7:23,25-27
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat…

Leviticus 17:10-14
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people…

Genesis 9:4
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

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1. The peace offering of the herd
6. whether a sheep
7. whether a lamb
12. or a goat
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(17) A perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings.--Better, a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings; so the Authorised Version in the only three other passages in which it occurs. (Comp. Leviticus 23:14; Leviticus 23:21, where it is inverted; and 31.) That is, the law not to eat fat of beeves, sheep, or goats, is to be binding upon the Israelites throughout all their future generations, and is applicable to any place wherever they may dwell. As the full legislative formula only occurs four times in the Pentateuch, and is restricted to this book, it is important to render it uniformly in all the four passages. For the import of this statute see Leviticus 7:23-25.

Verse 17. - Eat neither fat nor blood. These are forbidden to be eaten, as belonging to God. The fat, that is, the internal fat, is his portion in the common feast of the peace offering, and the blood is presented to him in all the animal sacrifices, as the material vehicle of life (see Leviticus 7:22-27). The remaining regulations as to the various sorts of the peace offerings, the priests' portions of them, and the festive meal on the sacrifices, are given in Leviticus 7:11-34.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
This is a perpetual
עוֹלָם֙ (‘ō·w·lām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5769: Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always

statute
חֻקַּ֤ת (ḥuq·qaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 2708: Something prescribed, an enactment, statute

for the generations to come,
לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם (lə·ḏō·rō·ṯê·ḵem)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1755: A revolution of time, an age, generation, a dwelling

wherever
בְּכֹ֖ל (bə·ḵōl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

you live:
מֽוֹשְׁבֹתֵיכֶ֑ם (mō·wō·šə·ḇō·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 4186: A seat, assembly, dwelling place, dwelling, dwellers

You must not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

eat
תֹאכֵֽלוּ׃ (ṯō·ḵê·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

any
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

fat
חֵ֥לֶב (ḥê·leḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2459: Fat, richest, choice part

or any
וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

blood.’”
דָּ֖ם (dām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed


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