“It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.”
This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood. The absolute prohibition on eating fat or blood is declared a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live — not only in the land of promise but in every location where Israel lives. The two substances prohibited — fat and blood — are the two substances given to God in the sacrificial system: the fat burned on the altar and the blood splashed on the altar's sides. By prohibiting the eating of fat and blood, the ordinance maintains the exclusive divine ownership of the two substances that represent the richness and the life of the animal. Leviticus 17:14 grounds the blood prohibition in the principle that the life of every creature is its blood.
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