Leviticus 7:23
21 If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”
22 Then the LORD said to Moses,
“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.
24 The fat of an animal found dead or mauled by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.
25 If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which an offering made by fire may be presented to the LORD, the one who eats it must be cut off from his people.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.
- KJV
- Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
- WEB
- “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat.
- ASV
- Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.
- DARBY
- Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, No fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat shall ye eat.
- BLB
- “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘Any fat of an ox, or sheep, or goat, you⁺ shall not eat.
- ÅB
- Tal til Israels barn og si: Dere skal ikke spise fett av okse eller sau eller geit.
- OTB
- “Tal til israelittene og si: ‘Dere skal ikke spise noe fett av en okse, sau eller geit.
- B1930
- Tal til Israels barn og si: I skal ikke ete fett av okse eller får eller gjet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 3:16–17
Then the priest is to burn the food on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD’s.
Read in context1 Samuel 2:29
Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:38
which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!
Read in context1 Samuel 2:15–17
Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
Read in contextLeviticus 17:6
The priest will then sprinkle the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Read in contextActs 28:27
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
Read in contextRomans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Read in contextLeviticus 4:8–10
Then he shall remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering—the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them,
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