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| 1The LORD told Moses, | 1The LORD said to Moses, |
| 2"Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelis and tell them that this is what the LORD has commanded: | 2"Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: 'This is what the LORD has commanded: |
| 3When a person from the house of Israel slaughters an ox, a lamb, or a goat (whether in the camp or outside the camp), | 3Any Israelite who sacrifices an ox, a lamb or a goat in the camp or outside of it |
| 4but fails to bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting as an offering in the presence of the tent of the LORD, that person will incur bloodguilt. Because he has shed blood, that person is to be eliminated from contact with his people." | 4instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD in front of the tabernacle of the LORD--that person shall be considered guilty of bloodshed; they have shed blood and must be cut off from their people. |
| 5"This statute is required so that the Israelis may bring their sacrifices that they have been sacrificing to the LORD in the open field to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, where they are to slaughter their peace offering to the LORD. | 5This is so the Israelites will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they are now making in the open fields. They must bring them to the priest, that is, to the LORD, at the entrance to the tent of meeting and sacrifice them as fellowship offerings. |
| 6The priest is to sprinkle the blood on the LORD's altar at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and incinerate the fat, making a pleasing aroma to the LORD. | 6The priest is to splash the blood against the altar of the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting and burn the fat as an aroma pleasing to the LORD. |
| 7They are no longer to slaughter their sacrifices to the goat demons, with whom they have been committing prostitution. This will be a perpetual statute for you throughout your generations. | 7They must no longer offer any of their sacrifices to the goat idols to whom they prostitute themselves. This is to be a lasting ordinance for them and for the generations to come.' |
| 8Tell them that if a person from the house of Israel or a resident alien who lives among you brings a whole burnt offering or a sacrifice | 8"Say to them: 'Any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice |
| 9to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, but fails to bring it to offer it to the LORD, that person is to be eliminated from contact with his people." | 9and does not bring it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to sacrifice it to the LORD must be cut off from the people of Israel. |
| 10"If anyone from the house of Israel or a resident alien who lives among you eats any form of blood, I'll oppose that person who ate the blood and eliminate him from his people, | 10"'I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood, and I will cut them off from the people. |
| 11because the life of the flesh is in the blood itself, and I myself have given it to you all so that atonement may be made for your souls on the altar, since the blood itself makes atonement through the life that is in it. | 11For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life. |
| 12This is why I've told the Israelis that no person among you is to eat blood. Even the resident alien who lives among you is not to eat blood. | 12Therefore I say to the Israelites, "None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner residing among you eat blood." |
| 13"If a person from the house of Israel or a resident alien who lives among you has hunted live game or a bird that may be eaten, he is to extract its blood and cover it with soil, | 13"'Any Israelite or any foreigner residing among you who hunts any animal or bird that may be eaten must drain out the blood and cover it with earth, |
| 14because the life of any flesh is the blood itself. Therefore, I'm saying to the Israelis that the blood of any flesh is not to be eaten, because the life of any flesh is in its blood. Anyone who eats of it is to be eliminated from contact with his people. | 14because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, "You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off." |
| 15"Any person who eats a carcass or an animal that was torn by beasts (whether that person is native born or is a resident alien), is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will remain unclean until evening, and then he'll become clean. | 15"'Anyone, whether native-born or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then they will be clean. |
| 16But if he doesn't wash or bathe his body, then he is to bear the punishment of his iniquity." | 16But if they do not wash their clothes and bathe themselves, they will be held responsible.'" |
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