Dual PanelLaw of holiness
1THE LORD told Moses
2to say to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites: This is what the LORD has commanded.
3Any Israelite who slaughters an ox, a sheep, or a goat, either inside or outside the camp,
4and has not brought it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before his Tabernacle is to be held guilty of bloodshed: he has shed blood and will be cut off from his people.
5The purpose is that the Israelites should bring to the LORD the animals which they have been slaughtering in the open country; they must bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and offer them as shared-offerings to the LORD.
6The priest will fling the blood against the altar of the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat as a soothing odour to the LORD.
7No longer are they to offer their slaughtered beasts to the demons whom they wantonly follow. This is to be a rule binding on them and their descendants for all time.
8You must warn them: Any Israelite or alien settled in Israel who offers a whole-offering or a sacrifice
9and does not bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to offer it to the LORD is to be cut off from his father's kin.
10If any Israelite or alien settled in Israel consumes any blood, I shall set my face against him and cut him off from his people,
11because the life of a creature is the blood, and I appoint it to make expiation on the altar for yourselves: it is the blood, which is the life, that makes expiation.
12Therefore I have told you Israelites that neither you, nor any alien settled among you, is to consume blood.
13Any Israelite or alien settled in Israel who hunts beasts or birds that may lawfully be eaten must drain out the blood and cover it with earth,
14because the life of every living creature is its blood, and I have forbidden the Israelites to consume the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood: whoever eats it is to be cut off.
15Every person, native or alien, who eats something which has died a natural death or has been mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and remain ritually unclean till evening; then he will be clean.
16But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe his body, he must accept responsibility.