Leviticus 3:17
by a perpetual law, in your generations and in all of your habitations, neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.
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Genesis 9:4except that flesh with blood you shall not eat.
Exodus 28:43And Aaron and his sons will use them when they enter the tabernacle of the testimony, and when they approach toward the altar, in order to minister in the sanctuary, lest, being guilty of iniquity, they may die. It shall be a law forever for Aaron, and for his offspring after him.”
Leviticus 6:15The priest shall take a handful of fine wheat flour, which has been sprinkled with oil, and all the frankincense, which has been placed upon the flour, and he shall burn it upon the altar as a memorial of most sweet odor to the Lord.
Leviticus 7:23Say to the sons of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not eat.
Leviticus 7:26Likewise, you shall not take as food the blood of any animals at all, whether of birds or beasts.
Leviticus 10:9“You shall not drink wine, nor anything that is able to inebriate you or your sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. For it is an everlasting precept in your generations.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 3:7-17
6 And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the Lord be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. 7 If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before the Lord . 8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar. 9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the Lord ; the fat… Read the whole commentary →