Leviticus 7:23

Contemporary English Version

to say to the people: Don't eat the fat of cattle, sheep, or goats.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"Speak to the children of Yisra'el, saying, 'You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.

King James Version
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

Lexham English Bible
"Speak to the Israelites, saying, ‘You must not eat any fat of ox, or sheep, or goat;

New Century Version
"Tell the people of Israel: ‘You must not eat any of the fat from cattle, sheep, or goats.

New English Translation
"Tell the Israelites, ‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.

Amplified Bible
"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'You shall not eat any fat from an ox, a sheep, or a goat.

New American Standard Bible
"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'You shall not eat any fat from an ox, a sheep, or a goat.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Speake vnto the children of Israel, & say, Ye shall eate no fat of beeues, nor of sheepe, nor of goates:

Legacy Standard Bible
"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall not eat any fat from an ox, a sheep, or a goat.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Say to the people of Isra'el, ‘You are not to eat the fat of bulls, sheep or goats.

Darby Translation
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, No fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat shall ye eat.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Tell the Israelites: You must not eat any fat from your cattle, sheep, or goats.

English Standard Version
"Speak to the people of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat.

George Lamsa Translation
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, You shall eat no manner of fat, of oxen or of lambs or of goats.

Good News Translation
for the people of Israel. No fat of cattle, sheep, or goats shall be eaten.

Christian Standard Bible®
“Tell the Israelites: You are not to eat any fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.

Literal Translation
Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, You shall not eat any fat of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Speake vnto the children of Israel, & saye: Ye shall eate no fat of oxen, lambes, and goates:

American Standard Version
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.

Bible in Basic English
Say to the children of Israel: You are not to take any fat, of ox or sheep or goat, for food.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Speake vnto the chyldren of Israel, and say: Ye shall eate no maner fat of beeues, of sheepe, and of goates.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: Ye shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.

King James Version (1611)
Speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no maner fat of oxe, or of sheepe, or of goat.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He that offers the blood of the peace-offering, and the fat, of the sons of Aaron, his shall be the right shoulder for a portion.

English Revised Version
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.

Berean Standard Bible
"Speak to the Israelites and say, 'You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide, Speke thou to the sones of Israel, Ye schulen not ete the ynnere fatnesse of a scheep, of an oxe, and of a geet;

Young's Literal Translation
`Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Any fat of ox and sheep and goat ye do not eat;

Update Bible Version
Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.

Webster's Bible Translation
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

World English Bible
"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.

New King James Version
"Speak to the children of Israel, saying: "You shall not eat any fat, of ox or sheep or goat.

New Living Translation
"Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. You must never eat fat, whether from cattle, sheep, or goats.

New Life Bible
"Say to the people of Israel, ‘Do not eat any fat from a bull, sheep or goat.

New Revised Standard
Speak to the people of Israel, saying: You shall eat no fat of ox or sheep or goat.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, - No fat, of ox or sheep or goat, shall ye eat:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Say to the children of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not eat.

Revised Standard Version
"Say to the people of Israel, You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'You shall not eat any fat from an ox, a sheep or a goat.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ The Lord said: Here are the instructions for offering a sacrifice to ask my blessing: ¹² If you offer it to give thanks, you must offer some bread together with it. Use the finest flour to make three kinds of bread without yeast—two in the form of loaves mixed with olive oil and one in the form of thin wafers brushed with oil. ¹³ You must also make some bread with yeast. ¹⁴ Give me one loaf or wafer from each of these four kinds of bread, after which they will belong to the priest who splattered the blood against the bronze altar. ¹⁵ When you offer an animal to ask a blessing from me or to thank me, the meat belongs to you, but it must be eaten the same day. ¹⁶ It is different with the sacrifices you offer when you make me a promise or voluntarily give me something. The meat from those sacrifices may be kept and eaten the next day, ¹⁷but any that is left must be destroyed. If you eat any after the second day, your sacrifice will be useless and unacceptable, and you will be both disgusting and guilty. ¹⁹ Don't eat any of the meat that touches something unclean. Instead, burn it. The rest of the meat may be eaten by anyone who is clean and acceptable to me. ²⁰But don't eat any of this meat if you have become unclean by touching something unclean from a human or an animal or from any other creature. If you do, you will no longer belong to the community of Israel. ²² The Lord told Moses

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fat: Any other fat they might eat; but the fat of these was sacred, because they were the only animals which were offered in sacrifice, though many others ranked among the clean animals as well as these. This prohibition may, however, be understood of these animals when offered in sacrifice, and then only in reference to the inward fat, described in Leviticus 7:4. Of the fat in any other circumstances, it cannot be intended, as it was one of the especial blessings which God gave to his people - "Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats," were the provision which he graciously bestowed on his followers. - See note on Deuteronomy 32:12-14. Leviticus 3:16, Leviticus 3:17, Leviticus 4:8-10, Leviticus 17:6, Deuteronomy 32:38, 1 Samuel 2:15-17, 1 Samuel 2:29, Acts 28:27, Romans 8:13, Romans 13:13

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:16 - presently Acts 15:20 - things

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
The Lord told Noah: Take your whole family with you into the boat, because you are the only one on this earth who pleases me.

Genesis 7:8
He obeyed God and took a male and a female of each kind of animal and bird into the boat with him.

Genesis 7:10
Seven days later a flood began to cover the earth.

Genesis 7:14
They took along every kind of animal, tame and wild, including the birds.

Genesis 7:15
Noah took a male and a female of every living creature with him,

Genesis 7:17
For forty days the rain poured down without stopping. And the water became deeper and deeper, until the boat started floating high above the ground.

Genesis 7:21
Not a bird, animal, reptile, or human was left alive anywhere on earth.

Genesis 7:22
The Lord destroyed everything that breathed. Nothing was left alive except Noah and the others in the boat.

Job 5:19
God will protect you from harm, no matter how often trouble may strike.

Psalms 91:1
Live under the protection of God Most High and stay in the shadow of God All-Powerful.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,.... Putting them in mind, by repeating to them the laws concerning fat and blood, Leviticus 3:17

ye shall eat no manner of fat; of any creature fit for food, whose flesh otherwise may be eaten, and particularly

of ox, or of sheep, or of goats: creatures used in sacrifice; though this is not to be restrained to such of them, and the fat of them that were sacrificed, whose fat was claimed by the Lord as his, and was burnt on his altar; but this is to be understood of the fat of these creatures when killed for their common use, for the food of them and their families; the fat even of these was not to be eaten; that which was not separated from the flesh, but mixed with it, might be eaten, but not that which was separated l.

l Bechai in Lev. 3. 17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is emphatically addressed to the people. They were not to eat in their own meal what belonged to the altar of Yahweh, nor what was the perquisite of the priests. See Leviticus 7:33-36.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 7:23. Fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat. — Any other fat they might eat, but the fat of these was sacred, because they were the only animals which were offered in sacrifice, though many others ranked among the clean animals as well as these. But it is likely that this prohibition is to be understood of these animals when offered in sacrifice, and then only in reference to the inward fat, as mentioned on Leviticus 7:4. Of the fat in any other circumstances it cannot be intended, as it was one of the especial blessings which God gave to the people. Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with FAT of LAMBS, and RAMS of the breed of Bashan, and GOATS, were the provision that he gave to his followers. See Deuteronomy 32:12-14.