New King James Version
Leviticus 7:26
26Moreover you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, whether of bird or beast.
Leviticus 7:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
- New International Version (NIV)And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.
- New Living Translation (NLT)No matter where you live, you must never consume the blood of any bird or animal.
Context of Leviticus 7:26
24And the fat of an animal that dies naturally, and the fat of what is torn by wild beasts, may be used in any other way; but you shall by no means eat it. 25For whoever eats the fat of the animal of which men offer an offering made by fire to the Lord, the person who eats it shall be cut off from his people. Moreover you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, whether of bird or beast. 27Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.’ ” 28Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Read all of Leviticus 7Leviticus 7:26 word by word
וְכָל־דָּם֙ לֹ֣א תֹאכְל֔וּ בְּכֹ֖ל מוֹשְׁבֹתֵיכֶ֑ם לָע֖וֹף וְלַבְּהֵמָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Leviticus 7:26
- Leviticus 3:17‘This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”
- Leviticus 17:10‘And whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
- Genesis 9:4But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
- 1 Samuel 14:33Then they told Saul, saying, “Look, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood!” So he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a large stone to me this day.”
- Ezekiel 33:25“Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “You eat meat with blood, you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?
- John 6:53Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.
- Acts 15:20but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.
- Acts 15:29that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
- Ephesians 1:7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
- 1 Timothy 4:4For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;
Commentaries on Leviticus 7:26
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26No manner of blood - See Leviticus 17:10-15.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-27Verses 11-27 As to the peace-offerings, in the expression of their sense of mercy, God left them more at liberty, than in the expression of their sense of sin; that their sacrifices, being free-will offerings, might be the more acceptable, while, by obliging them to bring the sacrifices of atonement, God shows the necessity of the great Propitiation. The main reason why blood was forbidden of old, was because the Lord had appointed blood for an atonement…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 26-27The command not to eat blood was very important. The Council at Jerusalem even included it in their instructions for non-Jewish (Gentile) believers (Acts 15:29).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22-2722-27. Ye shall eat no manner of fat--(See on Le 3:17).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 7
- 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
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