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Eating Fat and Blood Forbidden

22 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 23 Speak to the children of Israel, saying: You shall not eat any fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat. 24 The fat of an animal that dies of itself and the fat of that which is torn by beasts may be used in any other way, but you shall certainly not eat of it. 25 For whoever eats the fat of an animal that is a food offering made by fire to the Lord, that individual shall be cut off from his people. 26 Moreover you shall not eat any manner of blood, whether from a fowl or animal, in any of your dwellings. 27 Whoever eats any manner of blood, that individual shall be cut off from his people.

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Instructions for the People

22 Then[a] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 23 “Speak to the Israelites,[b] saying, ‘You[c] must not eat any fat of ox, or[d] sheep, or[e] goat; 24 and a dead body’s fat or[f] mangled carcass’s fat may be used for any purpose,[g] but[h] you[i] certainly must not eat it. 25 When anyone eats fat from the domestic animal from which he presented an offering made by fire for Yahweh, then[j] that person[k] who ate shall be cut off from his people. 26 And in any of your[l] dwellings, you must not eat any blood belonging to[m] birds[n] or[o] domestic animals.[p] 27 Any person[q] who eats any blood, that person[r] shall be cut off from his people.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 7:22 Or “And”
  2. Leviticus 7:23 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  3. Leviticus 7:23 Plural
  4. Leviticus 7:23 Or “and”
  5. Leviticus 7:23 Or “and”
  6. Leviticus 7:24 Or “and”
  7. Leviticus 7:24 Literally “work”
  8. Leviticus 7:24 Or “and”
  9. Leviticus 7:24 Plural
  10. Leviticus 7:25 Or “and”
  11. Leviticus 7:25 Or “the soul”
  12. Leviticus 7:26 Plural
  13. Leviticus 7:26 Literally “to/of”
  14. Leviticus 7:26 Hebrew “the bird”; generic article with a collective noun
  15. Leviticus 7:26 Or “and”
  16. Leviticus 7:26 Hebrew “the domestic animal”; generic article with a collective noun
  17. Leviticus 7:27 Or “any soul” or “all soul(s)”
  18. Leviticus 7:27 Or “and that soul”