THE COVENANT PROHIBITION AGAINST CONSUMING FAT, FLESH OR BLOOD
This covenant restriction will be repeated 5 times in 7 Scripture passages:
Genesis 9:4-5 | "..with this exception: you must not eat flesh with life, that is to say blood, in it." |
Leviticus 3:17 | "This is a perpetual law for all your descendants, wherever you may live: that you will not eat either fat or blood." |
Leviticus 7:25-26 | "Anyone who eats the fat of an animal offered as food burnt for Yahweh will be outlawed from his people. Wherever you live, you will never eat blood, whether it be of bird or of beast. Anyone who eats any blood will be outlawed [literally "cut-off" meaning "dead"] from his people." |
Leviticus 17:10-12 | "If any member of the House of Israel or any resident alien consumes blood of any kind, I shall set my face against that individual who consumes blood and shall outlaw him from his people. For the life of the creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you for performing the rite of expiation [atonement] on the altar for your lives, for blood is what expiates for a life. That is why I told the Israelites: None of you will consume blood, nor will any resident alien consume blood. |
Leviticus 17:14 | "You will not consume the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood, and anyone who consumes it will be outlawed [cut off]." |
Deuteronomy 12:16 | "You will not however eat the blood, but will pour that like water on the ground." |
Deuteronomy 12:23-28 | "Take care, however, not to eat the blood, since blood is life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. [...]. The burnt offerings of meat and blood must be presented on the altar of Yahweh your God' whereas in your sacrifices, the blood must be poured on the altar of Yahweh your God; the meat you yourselves may eat." |
M. Hunt 1991 www.agapebiblestudy.com |
M. Hunt 1991