Leviticus 3:17
What does Leviticus 3:17 mean?
A plain-English look at Leviticus 3:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
KJV
King James Version · 1611It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890[It is] an everlasting statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings: no fat and no blood shall ye eat.
Context
v.16And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savor; all the fat is Jehovah’s.
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 16:34
And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make atonement for the children of Israel because of all their sins once in the year. And he did as Jehovah commanded Moses.
- Ephesians 5:26
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
- Leviticus 7:36
which Jehovah commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion for ever throughout their generations.
- Leviticus 7:25
For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
- Leviticus 17:7
And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto the he-goats, after which they play the harlot. This shall be a statute forever unto them throughout their generations.
- Leviticus 7:23
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.
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