Leviticus 19:26

Leviticus 19:26 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
• New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. “ ‘Do not practice divination or seek omens.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying.

Context of Leviticus 19:26

24In the fourth year all its fruit is to be consecrated as a praise offering to the Lord. 25But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way its yield will increase for you; I am the Lord your God. “You are not to eat anything with blood in it. You are not to practice divination or witchcraft. 27You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard. 28You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:26 word by word

לֹ֥א תֹאכְל֖וּ עַל־הַדָּ֑ם לֹ֥א תְנַחֲשׁ֖וּ וְלֹ֥א תְעוֹנֵֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Ye shall not eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• with the bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
• neither shall ye use enchantmentנָחַשׁnâchash · to divineH5172
• nor observe timesעָנַן‛ânan · to divineH6049

Cross-references for Leviticus 19:26

• Leviticus 3:17This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”
• Leviticus 7:26Wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
• Leviticus 17:10“Anyone from the house of Israel or from the aliens who reside among them who eats any blood, I will turn against that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people.
• Deuteronomy 12:23But don’t eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
• Exodus 7:11But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers — the magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices.
• Exodus 8:7But the magicians did the same thing by their occult practices and brought frogs up onto the land of Egypt.
• 1 Samuel 15:23For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and defiance is like wickedness and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king.
• Jeremiah 10:2This is what the Lord says: Do not learn the way of the nations or be terrified by signs in the heavens, although the nations are terrified by them,
• Daniel 2:10The Chaldeans answered the king, “No one on earth can make known what the king requests. Consequently, no king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, medium, or Chaldean.
• Malachi 3:5“I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident alien. They do not fear me,” says the Lord of Armies.
• Deuteronomy 18:10No one among you is to sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire, practice divination, tell fortunes, interpret omens, practice sorcery,
• 2 Kings 17:17They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and interpreted omens. They devoted themselves to do what was evil in the Lord’s sight and angered him.
• 2 Kings 21:6He sacrificed his son in the fire, practiced witchcraft and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a huge amount of evil in the Lord’s sight, angering him.
• 2 Chronicles 33:6He passed his sons through the fire in Ben Hinnom Valley. He practiced witchcraft, divination, and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a huge amount of evil in the Lord’s sight, angering him.

Commentaries on Leviticus 19:26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26Neither shall ye use enchantment - תנחשו לא lo thenachashu . Conjecture itself can do little towards a proper explanation of the terms used in this verse. נחש nachash ; See note at Genesis 3:1; (note), we translate serpent, and with very little propriety; but though the word may not signify a serpent in that place, it has that signification in others. Possibly, therefore, the superstition here prohibited may be what the Greeks called Ophiomanteia, or…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26-28Verses 26-28 Certain pagan customs, several of them connected with magic, are here grouped together. The prohibition to eat anything with the blood may indeed refer to the eating of meat which had not been properly bled in slaughtering (Leviticus 7:26; Leviticus 17:10, etc.): but it is not improbable that there may be a special reference to some sort of magical or idolatrous rites. Compare Ezekiel 33:25. Leviticus 19:26 Observe times - It is not clear…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 26blood: See study note on Leviticus 7:22–27. Priests could consult the Urim and Thummim (Exodus 28:30). They could also cast lots to decide cases not addressed in the laws Moses gave (Leviticus 16:8). But those who practiced fortune-telling or witchcraft consulted a power other than the Lord. The first commandment prohibited this (Exodus 20:3).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. shall not eat any thing with the blood--(See on Le 17:10). neither ... use enchantment, nor observe times--The former refers to divination by serpents--one of the earliest forms of enchantment, and the other means the observation, literally, of clouds, as a study of the appearance and motion of clouds was a common way of foretelling good or bad fortune. Such absurd but deep-rooted superstitions often put a stop to the prosecution of serious and…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Leviticus 19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings