KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
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“It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “It shall be” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “a perpetual” | עוֹלָם֙ | Properly, concealed, i.e., the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e., (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always | perpetual |
| “statute” | חֻקַּ֤ת | A statute | statute |
| “for your generations” | לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם | Properly, a revolution of time, i.e., an age or generation; also a dwelling | generations |
| “throughout all” | בְּכֹ֖ל | Properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense) | throughout all |
| “your dwellings,” | מוֹשְׁבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם | A seat; figuratively, a site; abstractly, a session; by extension an abode (the place or the time); by implication, population | dwellings |
| “that ye eat” | תֹאכֵֽלוּ׃ | To eat (literally or figuratively) | eat |
| “neither” | לֹ֥א | Not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles | neither |
| “fat” | חֵ֥לֶב | Fat, whether literally or figuratively; hence, the richest or choice part | fat |
| “nor blood.” | דָּ֖ם | Blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e., drops of blood) | blood |
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15 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the Lord's.
17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
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