Verse 11

For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For kjøttets sjel er i blodet, og jeg har gitt dere det på alteret for å gjøre soning for deres sjeler; for det er blodet som gjør soning for sjelen.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For kjøttets liv er i blodet, og jeg har gitt dere det på alteret for å gjøre soning for deres sjeler, for det er blodet som gjør soning for sjelen.

• Norsk King James

  For livet til kjøttet er i blodet; og jeg har gitt det til dere på alteret for å gjøre soning for deres sjeler; for det er blodet som gjør soning for sjelen.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  For livets sjel er i blodet, og jeg har gitt dere det på alteret for å gjøre soning for sjelene deres; for det er blodet som gir soning for sjelen.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For kjøttets sjel er i blodet, og jeg har gitt det til dere på alteret for å gjøre soning for deres sjeler, for det er blodet som gjør soning for sjelen.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For det er livet i kjøttet som er i blodet, og jeg har gitt det til dere på alteret for å gjøre soning for deres sjeler; for det er blodet som gjør soning for sjelen.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For alt liv i kjøttet er i blodet, og jeg har gitt det til dere på alteret for å sone for deres sjeler. Det er blodet som sone for sjelen.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  For det er livet i kjøttet som er i blodet, og jeg har gitt det til dere på alteret for å gjøre soning for deres sjeler; for det er blodet som gjør soning for sjelen.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For kjøttets sjel er i blodet, og jeg har gitt dere det på alteret for å gjøre soning for deres sjeler, for blodet gjør soning.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  For kjøttets liv er i blodet, og jeg har gitt dere det på alteret for å gjøre soning for deres sjeler. Fordi blodet gjør soning for sjelen.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi Kjødets Sjæl, den er i Blodet, og jeg, jeg haver givet eder det paa Alteret, til at gjøre Forligelse for eders Sjæle; thi Blodet er det, som skal gjøre Forligelse for Sjælen.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For the life of the fsh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For livskraften i kjøttet er i blodet, og jeg har gitt det til dere på alteret for å gjøre soning for deres sjeler; for det er blodet som gjør soning for sjelen.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For livets blod er i kjødet; og jeg har gitt det til dere på alteret for å gjøre soning for deres sjeler: for det er blodet som gjør soning på grunn av livet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  for blodet i kroppen er livet, og Jeg har gitt dere det på alteret til å gjøre soning for deres sjeler. Det er blodet som gjør soning for sjelen.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For kjøttets liv er i blodet, og jeg har gitt det til dere på alteret for å gjøre soning for deres sjeler. For det er blodet som gjør soning fordi livet er i det.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For livet er i blodet; og jeg har gitt det til dere på alteret for å gjøre soning for deres synder: for det er blodet som gjør fri fra synder på grunn av livet i det.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  for the life of the flesh is in the bloude, and I haue geuen it vnto you apon the alter, to make an attonement for youre soules,

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  for the soule of ye body is in the bloude, and I haue geuen it you for the altare, that youre soules maye be reconcyled ther with:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I haue giuen it vnto you to offer vpon the altar, to make an atonemet for your soules: for this blood shall make an atonement for the soule.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For the life of the fleshe is in the blood, and I haue geuen it vnto you vpon the aulter, to make an attonement for your soules: for this blood shall make an attonement for the soule.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For the life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it [is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the soul.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar, to make atonement for your souls; for it `is' the blood which maketh atonement for the soul.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.

Referenced Verses

• Heb 9:22 : 22 And almost all things are purified by the law with blood; and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
• Matt 26:28 : 28 For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
• Mark 14:24 : 24 And he said to them, This is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.
• Rom 3:25 : 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,
• Rom 5:9 : 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
• Eph 1:7 : 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace;
• Col 1:14 : 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins:
• Col 1:20 : 20 And having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things to himself; by him, I say, whether things on earth, or things in heaven.
• Heb 13:12 : 12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
• Lev 17:14 : 14 For it is the life of all flesh; its blood is for the life thereof: therefore I said to the children of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh: for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.
• Matt 20:28 : 28 Even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
• 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification by the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you.
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 And he is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
• Gen 9:4 : 4 But flesh with its life, which is the blood, you shall not eat.
• Lev 8:15 : 15 And he killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement on it.
• Lev 16:11 : 11 And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself:
• Lev 16:14-19 : 14 And he shall take of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. 15 Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring its blood within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of meeting, which remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness. 17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of meeting when he goes in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he comes out, and has made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. 18 And he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bull, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar all around. 19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and sanctify it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.