Leviticus 17

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying: ² "Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them: This is the thing which Yahweh has instructed, saying, ³ Any man from the house of Israel who slays a bull or a sheep or a goat in the camp, or who slays it outside the camp, ⁴ and does not bring it to the opening of the tent of appointment so as to bring it near as an approach present to Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh, bloodshed shall be accounted to that man. He has shed blood; hence that man will be cut off from among his people. ⁵ This is in order that the sons of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they have been sacrificing on the surface of the field - that they bring them before Yahweh, to the priest at the opening of the tent of appointment, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh. ⁶ Then the priest will sprinkle the blood against the altar of Yahweh at the opening of the tent of appointment, and he will cause the fat to fume as a fragrant odor to Yahweh. ⁷ No longer shall they sacrifice their sacrifices to hairy goat-demons after whom they have been prostituting. An eonian statute shall this become for them throughout their generations. ⁸ To them you shall say: Any man from the house of Israel or from the sojourners who sojourn in your midst who should offer an ascent offering or a sacrifice ⁹ and not bring it to the opening of the tent of appointment to offer it to Yahweh, that man will be cut off from his kinsmen. ¹⁰ As for any man from the house of Israel and from the sojourners sojourning in your midst who should eat any blood, I will set My face against the soul eating blood, and I will cut him off from among his people, ¹¹ for the soul of the flesh, it is in the blood, and I Myself have assigned it to you to make a propitiatory shelter over your souls on the altar; for the blood, in the soul it makes a propitiatory shelter. ¹² Therefore I say to the sons of Israel: No soul at all of you shall eat blood; nor shall the sojourner sojourning in your midst eat blood. ¹³ Any man from the sons of Israel and from the sojourners sojourning in your midst who hunt a game animal or a flyer which may be eaten will pour out its blood and cover it with soil, ¹⁴ for the soul of all flesh is its blood; as its soul is it. So I said to the sons of Israel: The blood of any flesh you shall not eat, for the soul of all flesh, it is its blood. Everyone eating it shall be cut off. ¹⁵ Any soul who eats a carcass or an animal torn to pieces, whether a native or a sojourner, will rinse his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening; then he will be clean. ¹⁶ Yet if he should not rinse his garments and not bathe his flesh then he will bear his depravity."