Leviticus
Chapter 17
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
2Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel, and say to them, This is the thing God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has commanded:
3Any man of the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, or a lamb, or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp,
4and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to bring a A gift brought close to God. to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s dwelling, blood shall be counted against that man. He has poured out blood, and that man shall be cut off from the midst of his people.
5This is so the sons of Israel will bring their sacrifices that they sacrifice on the open field, and bring them to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of well-being to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
6The priest shall dash the blood on God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s altar at the entrance of the tent of meeting and turn the fat into smoke as a soothing scent for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
7They shall no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat-beings after whom they go whoring. This shall be a lasting A rule that is meant to last. for them, through their generations.
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Se’irim are goat-beings. “Demons” and “satyrs” are live alternatives, and they are not printed. Zonim achar is going whoring after them.
8You shall say to them, Any man of the house of Israel, or of the People living in a land that is not their own. who sojourn among them, who offers up a whole offering or a sacrifice,
9and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to make it for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., that man shall be cut off from his people.
10Any man of the house of Israel, or of the People living in a land that is not their own. who sojourn among them, who eats any blood, I will set my face against the person who eats the blood, and I will cut that person off from the midst of his people.
11For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for your lives, for it is the blood that makes Making someone right with God after a wrong. by the life.
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Nefesh here is the life that is in the blood. Kipper is atonement, to cover. The blood makes atonement by that life.
12Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, and the A person living in a land that is not their own. who sojourns among you shall not eat blood.
13Any man of the sons of Israel, or of the People living in a land that is not their own. who sojourn among them, who hunts quarry, a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust.
14For the life of all flesh is its blood in its life. I said to the sons of Israel, The blood of all flesh you shall not eat, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Everyone who eats it shall be cut off.
15Every person who eats a carcass or a torn animal, whether a native or a A person living in a land that is not their own., shall wash his clothes, wash in water, and be unclean until evening, and then he shall be clean.
16If he does not wash them, and does not wash his body, he shall carry his guilt.