The Place of Sacrifice
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the Israelites, and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord has commanded: 3 Any Israelite who kills a bull or lamb or goat, in the camp or outside the camp, 4 and has not brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to offer it as an offering to the Lord before the Lord’s tabernacle; blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood. That man shall be cut off from among his people.
5 This is so the Israelites will bring to the Lord, their sacrifices which they have been offering in the open fields. They are to bring them to the priest at the door of the tent of meeting and slaughter them as sacrifices of peace-offerings to the Lord. 6 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the Lord’s altar at the door of the Tent of Meeting and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to the Lord. 7 They shall no longer make sacrifices to goat idols with whom they have prostituted themselves. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.’
8 You shall say to them, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner who sojourns among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, 9 and does not bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to the Lord, that man shall be cut off from his people.”
Eating of Blood Forbidden
10 “Any Israelite or foreigner who sojourns among you, who ingests blood of any kind, I will set my face against that person and will cut off that person from among his people. 11 For the life of a creature is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for yourselves, for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul. 12 Therefore I have said to the Israelites, ‘No person among you may ingest blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you injest blood.’
13 Any Israelite or foreigner who sojourns among you, if by hunting or fowling, he takes a wild beast or bird, which is lawful to eat, let him drain out its blood and cover it with earth. 14 For the life of all creatures is in its blood. Therefore I said to the Israelites: You shall not eat the blood of any kind of creature, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.
15 Every person that eats what is found dead or that is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. Then he shall be clean. 16 But if he does not wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.”