Leviticus 17 - EasyEnglish Bible 2024（EASY）

Chapter 17The people must not eat blood

1The Lord said to Moses,

2‘Speak to Aaron, to his sons and to all Israel's people. Tell them, “This is what the Lord has commanded.

3-4If any Israelite wants to kill a bull, a lamb or a goat as a sacrifice, he must bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. He must bring it there as an offering to the Lord. If he kills the animal anywhere else in the camp or outside the camp, he is guilty of a sin. He has poured out the animal's blood in a wrong way. He can no longer belong among Israel's people.

5This rule will stop the people killing animals as sacrifices to the Lord in the fields. Instead, they must bring their offerings to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. They must kill the animals there as friendship offerings to the Lord.

6The priest must splash the animal's blood on the Lord's altar at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. He must also burn the animal's fat. It will make a smell that gives pleasure to the Lord.

7The people must be faithful to the Lord. They must no longer worship the idols of goats and offer sacrifices to them. The people and their descendants must always obey this rule.”

8You must also tell the people, “An Israelite or a foreigner may want to kill an animal as a burnt offering or as another sacrifice.

9If so, he must bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. He must offer it there to the Lord. If he does not do that, he can no longer belong among Israel's people.

10Any Israelite or a foreigner who lives among you must not eat any blood. If anyone does that, I will turn against that person. I will remove him so that he no longer belongs among Israel's people.

11Everything that lives has life because of its blood. I have told you to offer blood on the altar. That is how you become clean from your sins. The animal's blood is the life that makes you clean.

12For this reason I have told Israel's people that you must not eat blood. And no foreign person who lives among you may eat blood either.

13Israelites or foreigners who live among them may catch a wild animal or a bird. If it is clean to eat, the person who catches it must pour its blood on the ground. He must cover the blood with some soil.

14All living things have life because of their blood. So I have told the Israelites that they must not eat the blood of any living thing. Anyone who eats blood can no longer belong among my people.

15An Israelite or a foreigner may find the body of an animal that has died by itself. Or it may be the body of an animal that wild animals have killed. If he eats the meat of that animal, he must wash his clothes and his whole body. He will be unclean until evening. Then he will become clean.

16But if he does not wash his clothes and his whole body, he will receive the punishment that he deserves.” ’