Leviticus 7:23

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““Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.”

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BSBPD

““Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Any fat of ox and sheep and goat ye do not eat;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Leviticus 7:23 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 22:30You shall do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.
  2. Leviticus 3:16Then 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.
  3. Leviticus 3:17This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
  4. Leviticus 4:8Then 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,
  5. Leviticus 17:6The 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.
  6. Deuteronomy 32:38which 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!
  7. 1 Samuel 2:15Even 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.”
  8. 1 Samuel 2:29Why 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.’
  9. Acts 28:27For 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.’
  10. Romans 8:13For 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.
  11. Romans 13:13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

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