Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Leviticus 17:5-16 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

5. And so, when you sacrifice an animal to ask my blessing, it must not be done out in a field,

6. but in front of the sacred tent. Then a priest can splatter its blood against the bronze altar and send its fat up in smoke with a smell that pleases me.

7. Don't ever turn from me again and offer sacrifices to goat-demons. This law will never change.

8. Remember! No one in Israel, including foreigners, is to offer a sacrifice anywhere

9. except at the entrance to the sacred tent. If you do, you will no longer belong to my people.

10. I will turn against any of my people who eat blood. This also includes any foreigners living among you.

11. Life is in the blood, and I have given you the blood of animals to sacrifice in place of your own.

12. That's also why I have forbidden you to eat blood.

13. Even if you should hunt and kill a bird or an animal, you must drain out the blood and cover it with soil.

14. The life of every living creature is in its blood. That's why I have forbidden you to eat blood and why I have warned you that anyone who does will no longer belong to my people.

15. If you happen to find a dead animal and eat it, you must take a bath and wash your clothes, but you are still unclean until evening.

16. If you don't take a bath, you will suffer for what you did wrong.