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Leviticus 3:17

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

Ye eat neither fat nor blood. The details given above distinctly define the fat in animals which was not to be eaten; so that all the rest, whatever adhered to other parts, or was intermixed with them, might be used. The prohibition of blood rested on a different foundation, being intended to preserve their reverence for the Messiah, who was to shed His blood as an atoning sacrifice for the sins of the world.

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See also Leviticus 3:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 3:17. _THAT YE EAT NEITHER FAT NOR BLOOD._] It is not likely that the _fat_ should be forbidden in the same manner and in the same latitude as the _blood_. The blood was the _life_ of...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BLOOD - See Leviticus 17:11 note. THROUGHOUT ALL YOUR DWELLINGS - The suet was neither to be eaten in sacrificial meals in the sanctuary, nor in ordinary meals in private houses....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE PEACE OFFERING CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The ox (Leviticus 3:1)_ 2. The sheep or goat (Leviticus 3:6) This is the third “sweet savour offering,” and is closely linked with the burnt offering, but it di...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    A PERPETUAL STATUTE, &C. Hebrew "a statute for ever, throughout your generations, in all your dwellings". This important phrase occurs only four times, Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 23:14; Leviticus 23:21...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Fat and blood forbidden_ The prohibition is repeated more fully in Leviticus 7:23-27; cp. Leviticus 17:10 f. Note the 2nd pers. plur., and for the expression -a perpetual statute, etc." cp. Leviticu...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PEACE OFFERING This form of sacrifice takes its name from a Heb. word meaning a 'requital' or giving of thanks, and is therefore called by some the Thank Offering. It is an animal sacrifice, the c...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (17)_)._ We find here, in this writing of Samuel, the first trace of literary composition among the Israelites since the days of Moses. The great revival in letters which began shortly after the days...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    חֻקַּ֤ת עֹולָם֙ לְ דֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם בְּ כֹ֖ל מֹֽו

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE PEACE OFFERING Leviticus 3:1; Leviticus 7:11; Leviticus 19:5; Leviticus 22:21 IN chapter 3 is given, though not

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE PROHIBITION OF FAT AND BLOOD Leviticus 3:16; Leviticus 7:22; Leviticus 17:10 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savour: all th...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    PEACE-OFFERINGS FROM THE HERD AND THE FLOCKS Leviticus 3:1 The Lord Jesus has been set forth in Leviticus 1:1 as the burned-offering in relation to God; and in Leviticus 2:1, as the meal-offering in...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the peace offering new elements are manifest Here one part was to be burned with fire and thus offered directly to God, while another part was returned from the altar to the worshiper for his own s...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither (f) fat nor blood. (f) Eating fat was a symbol of carnality, and eating blood signified cruel...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Fat. It is meant of the fat, which by the prescription of the law was to be offered on God's altar: not of the fat of meat, such as we commonly eat. (Challoner) --- This distinction is sufficiently in...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe the solemn injunction respecting the blood. No doubt in honour to the blood of CHRIST, by which alone atonement is made for sin. And through the whole Levitical dispensation this is strictly a...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The book of Leviticus has its own character quite as manifestly as Genesis or Exodus. Its peculiar feature is that from its very starting-point it is the revelation of what God saw in Jesus Christ our...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The peace-offering now presents itself to our notice. It is the offering which typifies to us the communion of saints, according to the efficacy of the sacrifice, with God, with the priest who has off...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [IT SHALL BE] A PERPETUAL STATUTE FOR YOUR GENERATIONS,.... That is, unto the end of the Mosaic dispensation, until the Messiah comes, and his sacrifice is offered up, and his blood is shed, till that...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Leviticus 3:17 [It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood. Ver. 17. _That ye neither eat fat nor blood._] Neither be carna...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _All your dwellings_ Not only at or near the tabernacle, not only of those beasts which you actually sacrifice, but also in your several dwellings, and of all that kind of beasts. _Fat_ Was forbidden,...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The meat offering of the herde, 6 of the flocke, 7 either a lambe, 12 or a goat. 1 AND if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if hee offer it of the herd, whether it be a male or fema...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings that ye eat neither fat nor blood. As long as the children of Israel were in the wilderness, all the animals slaughte...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OF GOATS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PEACE OFFERING TAKEN FROM THE HERD (vv. 1-5) The peace offering was also a voluntary sacrifice. However, it could either be a male or female, but only an unblemished animal. Of course it speaks a...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-17 Here is a law that they should eat neither fat nor blood. As for the fat, it means the fat of the inwards, the suet. The blood was forbidden for the same reason; because it was God's part of eve...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THROUGHOUT ALL YOUR DWELLINGS; not only at or near the tabernacle, nor only of those beasts which you actually sacrifice, but also in your several dwellings, and of all that kind of beasts. THAT YE EA...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The more closely we contemplate the offerings, the more fully do we see how that no one offering furnishes a complete view of Christ. It is only by putting all together, that anything like a just idea...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 3:17 perpetual H5769 statute H2708 generations H1755 dwellings H4186 eat H398 (H8799) fat H2459 blood H1818

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A GENERAL PRINCIPLE. NEITHER FAT NOR BLOOD TO BE EATEN. Leviticus 3:17 ‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Peace offering laws. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron's sons. CONCLUSION: In Christ, God and the sinner meet in peace. God is propitiated and the sinner reconciled; both alike satisfied with...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Leviticus 3:1. _Oblation,_ is variously rendered; sometimes an offering of any kind, sometimes, as here, a sacrifice of peace-offering. The LXX render it an offering of salutation; when a man had reco...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A sacrifice of peace-offering._ THE PEACE-OFFERING The word peace in the language of the Scriptures, has a shade of meaning not commonly attached to it in ordinary use. With most persons it signifie...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 3:1__ The PEACE OFFERING (see also Leviticus 7:11) expresses peace between an offerer and the

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 3:6 Almost the same instructions are given here for the offering of a sheep or a goat. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 3:16 The FAT, being the very best part of the animal, was to be given to the Lord. The BLOOD was reserved for atoning for the life of the Israelites, therefore it too must...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    The Peace Offering of Thanksgiving SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 3:1.—A sacrifice of peace offering. Happy are the truths made evident in this peace sacrifice; delightful to God, blessed for man. Pea...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE PEACE OFFERING. The peace offering, though the instructions here given respecting it precede those relating to the sin offering (for a reason to be stated hereafter), is the last in ord...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 14:32; 1 Timothy 4:4; Acts 15:20; Acts 15:21; Acts 15:29;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    All your dwellings — Not only at or near the tabernacle, not only of those beasts which you actually sacrifice, but also in your several dwellings, and of all that kind of beasts. Fat — Was forbidden,...

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