A moment in scripture
Leviticus 3:17
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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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The surrounding passage
- Leviticus 3:15
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.
- Leviticus 3:16
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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.