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Leviticus
17
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children
of Israel, saying to them: This is the word, which the
Lord hath commanded, saying:
Any man whosoever of the house of Israel if he kill
an ox, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp, or without
the camp,
And offer it not at the door of the tabernacle an oblation
to the Lord, shall be guilty of blood: as if he had
shed blood, so shall he perish from the midst of his
people.
Therefore the children of Israel shall bring to the
priest their victims, which they kill in the field,
that they may be sanctified to the Lord before the door
of the tabernacle of the testimony, and they may sacrifice
them for peace offerings to the Lord.
And the priest shall pour the blood upon the altar of
the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony,
and shall burn the fat for a sweet odour to the Lord.
And they shall no more sacrifice their victims to devils,
with whom they have committed fornication. It shall
be an ordinance for ever to them and to their posterity.
And thou shalt say to them: The man of the house of
Israel, and of the strangers who sojourn among you,
that offereth a holocaust or a victim,
And bringeth it not to the door of the tabernacle of
the testimony, that it may be offered to the Lord, shall
perish from among his people.
If any man whosoever of the house of Israel, and of
the strangers that sojourn among them, eat blood, I
will set my face against his soul, and will cut him
off from among his people:
Because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I
have given it to you, that you may make atonement with
it upon the altar for your souls, and the blood may
be for an expiation of the soul.
Therefore I have said to the children of Israel: No
soul of you, nor of the strangers that sojourn among
you, shall eat blood.
Any man whosoever of the children of Israel, and of
the strangers that sojourn among you, if by hunting
or fowling, he take a wild beast or a bird, which is
lawful to eat, let him pour out its blood, and cover
it with earth.
For the life of all flesh is in the blood: therefore
I said to the children of Israel: You shall not eat
the blood of any flesh at all, because the life of the
flesh is in the blood, and whosoever eateth it, shall
be cut off.
The soul that eateth that which died of itself, or has
been caught by a beast, whether he be one of your own
country or a stranger, shall wash his clothes and himself
with water, and shall be defiled until the evening:
and in this manner he shall be made clean.
But if he do not wash his clothes, and his body, he
shall bear his iniquity.
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