THEOSISLeviticus 7:23Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Say to the children of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not eat.
דַּבֵּ֛ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר כָּל־חֵ֜לֶב שׁ֥וֹר וְכֶ֛שֶׂב וָעֵ֖ז לֹ֥א תֹאכֵֽלוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Lev 3:16And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of the fire, and of a most sweet savour. All the fat shall be the Lord's.
- Lev 3:17By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.
- Lev 17:6And the priest shall pour the blood upon the altar of the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony: and shall burn the fat for a sweet odour to the Lord.
- Deut 32:38Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.
- Rom 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.
- 1 Sam 2:15Also before they burnt the fat, the servant of the priest came, and said to the man that sacrificed: Give me flesh to boil for the priest: for I will not take of thee sodden flesh, but raw.
- 1 Sam 2:17Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before the Lord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of the Lord.
- Lev 4:8And he shall take off the fat of the calf for the sin offering, as well that which covereth the entrails, as all the inwards: