Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
- BSB You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.
- NKJV Moreover you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, whether of bird or beast.
- NASB And you are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.
- NLT No matter where you live, you must never consume the blood of any bird or animal.
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Quick answer
Israel must never eat blood, whether from birds or animals, anywhere they live. The prohibition against blood applied universally in their homes.
Overview
Blood was understood as the seat of life and was reserved for atonement on the altar (Leviticus 17:11). This ban predated the law and bound all Israel everywhere. It points forward to the precious blood of Christ, which alone cleanses from sin, and which believers honor rather than treat as common.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Gen 9:4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
- Lev 3:17It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
- Lev 17:10–14And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
- Acts 15:20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
- 1 Tim 4:4For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
- 1 Sam 14:33–34Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
- Ezek 33:25Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
- Acts 15:29That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
- John 6:53Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
- Eph 1:7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
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Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.
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