Leviticus 3:17

3:17 This is ¹  a perpetual statute throughout your generations ²  in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’” ³ 

Leviticus 6:16

6:16 Aaron and his sons are to eat what is left over from it. It must be eaten unleavened in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Meeting Tent.

Leviticus 7:6

7:6 Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. ⁴ 

Leviticus 7:23

7:23 “Tell the Israelites, ‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.

Leviticus 7:26

7:26 And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live. ⁵ 

Leviticus 11:8

11:8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; ⁶  they are unclean to you.

Leviticus 11:11

11:11 Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.

Leviticus 19:26

Blood, Hair, and Body

19:26 “‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. ⁷  You must not practice either divination or soothsaying. ⁸ 

Leviticus 21:22

21:22 He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God,

Leviticus 22:12

22:12 If a priest’s daughter marries a lay person, ⁹  she may not eat the holy contribution offerings, ¹⁰ 

Leviticus 25:12

25:12 Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you – you may eat its produce ¹¹  from the field.

Leviticus 25:19-20

25:19 “‘The land will give its fruit and you may eat until you are satisfied, ¹²  and you may live securely in the land. 25:20 If you say, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’

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.”

⁴ tn Heb “holiness of holinesses [or holy of holies] it is”; NAB “most sacred”; TEV “very holy.”

⁷ tn Heb “and any blood you must not eat in any of your dwelling places, to the bird and to the animal.”

¹⁰ sn The regulations against touching the carcasses of dead unclean animals (contrast the restriction against eating their flesh) is treated in more detail in Lev 11:24-28 (cf. also vv. 29-40). For the time being, this chapter continues to develop the issue of what can and cannot be eaten.

¹³ tn Heb “You shall not eat on the blood.” See the extensive remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 319-20, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 132-33. The LXX has “on the mountains,” suggesting that this is a prohibition against illegitimate places and occasions of worship, not the eating of blood.

¹⁴ tn Heb “You shall not practice divination and you shall not practice soothsaying”; cf. NRSV “practice augury or witchcraft.” For suggestions regarding the practices involved see B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 133, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 320.

¹⁶ tn Heb “And a daughter of a priest, if she is to a man, a stranger” (cf. the note on v. 10 above).

¹⁷ tn Heb “she in the contribution of the holy offerings shall not eat.” For “contribution [offering]” see the note on Lev 7:14 and the literature cited there. Cf. NCV “the holy offerings”; TEV, NLT “the sacred offerings.”

¹⁹ tn That is, the produce of the land (fem.; cf. v. 7 above).

²² tn Heb “eat to satisfaction”; KJV, ASV “ye shall eat your fill.”