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1And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,* 2“Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel and say to them: This is the thing that YHWH has commanded, saying: 3Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a sheep or a goat in the camp or who slaughters outside the camp 4and has not brought it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to bring forward an offering to YHWH in front of YHWH’s Tabernacle: blood will be counted to that man. He has spilled blood. And that man will be cut off from among his people. 5So that the children of Israel will bring their sacrifices—which they are making at the open field—and will bring them to YHWH, to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and make them sacrifices of peace offerings to YHWH. 6And the priest shall fling the blood on YHWH’s altar at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and burn the fat to smoke as a pleasant smell to YHWH. 7And they shall not make their sacrifices anymore to the satyrs, after whom they are whoring. This shall be an eternal law to them through their generations.

8“And you shall say to them: Any man from the house of Israel and from the aliens who will reside among them who will make a burnt offering or a sacrifice 9and will not bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to make it to YHWH: that man will be cut off from his people.

10“And any man from the house of Israel and from the aliens who will reside among them who will eat any blood: then I shall set my face against the person who eats the blood, and I shall cut him off from among his people. “Because the flesh’s life is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement over your lives, because it is the blood that makes atonement for life. 12On account of this I have said to the children of Israel: every person among you shall not eat blood, and the alien who resides among you shall not eat blood.

13“And any man from the children of Israel and from the aliens who reside among them who will hunt game, animal or bird, that may be eaten: he shall spill out its blood and cover it with dust. 14Because all flesh’s life: its blood is one with its life. So I say to the children of Israel: you shall not eat the blood of all flesh — because all flesh’s life: it is its blood. Everyone of those who eat it will be cut off. 15And any living being, whether a citizen or an alien, who will eat carcass or a torn animal shall wash his clothes and shall wash with water and will be impure until evening and then will be pure. l6And if he will not wash them and will not wash his flesh, then he shall bear his crime.”