Open English Translation LEV Chapter 17

17 Then Yahweh told Mosheh:

2 Tell Aharon and his sons and all the Israelis that these are the instructions from Yahweh: 3 No Israeli is allowed to slaughter a bull or lamb or goat either inside the camp or outside it. 4 If they’re not taken to the entrance to the sacred tent to be presented as an offering to Yahweh in front of his residence, then that person will be held guilty of its blood—they’ve shed blood so they must be cut off from his people. 5 The Israelis must stop sacrificing their animals in the countryside, and instead bring them to Yahweh at the entrance to the sacred tent, i.e., they must bring them to the priest and sacrifice them as peace offerings to Yahweh. 6 Then the priest will splash the blood onto Yahweh’s altar at the tent entrance, and burn up the fat to become a soothing aroma for Yahweh. 7 Then they won’t be able to continue offering their sacrifices to the goat demons that they’re prostituting themselves to. The above will be a permanent regulation throughout the generations.

8 You must tell them that if an Israeli or a foreigner living among them, makes a burnt offering or sacrifice 9 without bringing it to Yahweh at the sacred tent entrance, then that person must be cut off from the community.

10 If there’s any Israeli or foreigner living among them, who eats blood, then I’ll oppose that person and remove them from the community[ref] 11 because the body’s life is in the blood. I myself have given you blood to make atonement for your lives at the altar, because it’s the blood that can atone for life.[ref] 12 That’s why I told the Israelis that none of them must eat blood—not even the foreigners that live among them may eat blood.

13 So any person (Israeli or foreigner living among them) who catches wild game (including birds) to eat, they must pour its blood out and cover it with soil 14 because the life of their bodies is the blood that’s in them. Again, that’s why I’ve told the Israelis not to eat the blood of any living thing because the life is in the blood, and anyone who eats it must be cut off from the community.

15 Anyone who eats part of a carcass they found or one that was killed by wild animals, must wash their clothes and bathe in water, and they’ll be ‘unclean’ until the evening, and then they’ll be ‘clean’ again. 16 However, if that person doesn’t wash their clothes or bathe, then they must bear the punishment for their own disobedience.