Leviticus 17:3

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“Blood guilt will be accounted to any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,

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  • Lev 17:8 : 8 “You are to say to them:‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst, who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice
  • Lev 17:12-13 : 12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood. 13 “‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,
  • Lev 17:15 : 15 Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.
  • Deut 12:5-7 : 5 But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there. 6 And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. 7 Both you and your families must feast there before the LORD your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.
  • Deut 12:11-15 : 11 Then you must come to the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you– your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. 12 You shall rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages(since they have no allotment or inheritance with you). 13 Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish, 14 for you may do so only in the place the LORD chooses in one of your tribal areas– there you may do everything I am commanding you. 15 Regulations for Profane Slaughter On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the LORD your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.
  • Deut 12:20-22 : 20 The Sanctity of Blood When the LORD your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say,“I want to eat meat just as I please,” you may do so as you wish. 21 If the place he chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages just as you wish. 22 Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.
  • Deut 12:26-27 : 26 Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the LORD will choose. 27 You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; the blood of your other sacrifices you must pour out on his altar while you eat the meat.

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  • Lev 17:4-5
    2 verses
    85%

    4but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to present it as an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people.

    5This is so that the Israelites will bring their sacrifices that they are sacrificing in the open field to the LORD at the entrance of the Meeting Tent to the priest and sacrifice them there as peace offering sacrifices to the LORD.

  • Lev 17:8-10
    3 verses
    83%

    8“You are to say to them:‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst, who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice

    9but does not bring it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to offer it to the LORD– that person will be cut off from his people.

    10Prohibition against Eating Blood“‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people,

  • Lev 17:12-15
    4 verses
    79%

    12Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood.

    13“‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,

    14for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood– all who eat it will be cut off.

    15Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.

  • Lev 1:10-11
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    78%

    10Animal from the Flock“‘If his offering is from the flock for a burnt offering– from the sheep or the goats– he must present a flawless male,

    11and must slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the LORD, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, will splash its blood against the altar’s sides.

  • Lev 7:25
    78%

    25If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.

  • Lev 1:2-3
    2 verses
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    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When someone among you presents an offering to the LORD, you must present your offering from the domesticated animals, either from the herd or from the flock.

    3Burnt Offering Regulations: Animal from the Herd“‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd he must present it as a flawless male; he must present it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent for its acceptance before the LORD.

  • Lev 3:6-8
    3 verses
    78%

    6Animal from the Flock“‘If his offering for a peace offering sacrifice to the LORD is from the flock, he must present a flawless male or female.

    7If he presents a sheep as his offering, he must present it before the LORD.

    8He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it before the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron must splash its blood against the altar’s sides.

  • Lev 3:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1Peace Offering Regulations: Animal from the Herd“‘Now if his offering is a peace offering sacrifice, if he presents an offering from the herd, he must present before the LORD a flawless male or a female.

    2He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, must splash the blood against the altar’s sides.

  • Lev 8:17
    77%

    17but the rest of the bull– its hide, its flesh, and its dung– he completely burned up outside the camp just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Lev 3:12-13
    2 verses
    77%

    12“‘If his offering is a goat he must present it before the LORD,

    13lay his hand on its head, and slaughter it before the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron must splash its blood against the altar’s sides.

  • Lev 22:17-20
    4 verses
    76%

    17Regulations for Offering Votive and Freewill Offerings The LORD spoke to Moses:

    18“Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them,‘When any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners in Israel presents his offering for any of the votive or freewill offerings which they present to the LORD as a burnt offering,

    19if it is to be acceptable for your benefit it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats.

    20You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit.

  • Lev 4:12
    76%

    12all the rest of the bull– he must bring outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place, to the fatty ash pile, and he must burn it on a wood fire; it must be burned on the fatty ash pile.

  • Lev 7:20-22
    3 verses
    76%

    20The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people.

    21When a person touches anything unclean(whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.’”

    22Sacrificial Instructions for the Common People: Fat and Blood Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Heb 13:11
    76%

    11For the bodies of those animals whose blood the high priest brings into the sanctuary as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp.

  • Deut 17:1
    76%

    1You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the LORD your God.

  • Num 19:3
    76%

    3You must give it to Eleazar the priest so that he can take it outside the camp, and it must be slaughtered before him.

  • Lev 4:21
    76%

    21He must bring the rest of the bull outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull– it is the sin offering of the assembly.

  • Lev 9:3
    76%

    3Then tell the Israelites:‘Take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and lamb, both a year old and flawless, for a burnt offering,

  • Exod 29:14
    75%

    14But the meat of the bull, its skin, and its dung you are to burn up outside the camp. It is the purification offering.

  • Num 15:11
    75%

    11This is what is to be done for each ox, or each ram, or each of the male lambs or the goats.

  • Lev 24:21
    75%

    21One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

  • Num 18:17
    75%

    17But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

  • Lev 17:2
    75%

    2“Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites, and tell them:‘This is the word that the LORD has commanded:

  • Lev 16:27-28
    2 verses
    75%

    27The bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought to make atonement in the holy place, must be brought outside the camp and their hide, their flesh, and their dung must be burned up,

    28and the one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

  • Lev 4:4
    75%

    4He must bring the bull to the entrance of the Meeting Tent before the LORD, lay his hand on the head of the bull, and slaughter the bull before the LORD.

  • Exod 12:5
    75%

    5Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

  • Lev 6:27
    75%

    27Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, you must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.

  • Ezek 43:25
    75%

    25“For seven days you will provide every day a goat for a sin offering; a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, will be provided.

  • Lev 19:8
    75%

    8and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity because he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person will be cut off from his people.

  • Lev 7:27
    75%

    27Any person who eats any blood– that person will be cut off from his people.’”

  • Num 15:3
    74%

    3and you make an offering by fire to the LORD from the herd or from the flock(whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts) to create a pleasing aroma to the LORD,

  • Exod 29:11
    74%

    11You are to kill the bull before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting