It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsIt shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
`A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.'
[It is] an everlasting statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings: no fat and no blood shall ye eat.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLeviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.
- Author
- Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
- Date
- Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)