Text -- Leviticus 3:16-17 (NET)

3:16 Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma– all the fat belongs to the Lord. 3:17 This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Lev 3:17

¹ tn The words “This is” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied due to requirements of English style.

² tn Heb “for your generations”; NAB “for your descendants”; NLT “for you and all your descendants.”

³ tn Heb “all fat and all blood you must not eat.”