Laws against Eating Blood
Leviticus 17:12
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Therefore I say to the Israelites, ‘None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.’
- KJV
- Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
- WEB
- Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No person among you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.”
- ASV
- Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
- LSV
- Therefore I have said to the sons of Israel: No person among you eats blood, and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst does not eat blood;
- YLT
- 'Therefore I have said to the sons of Israel, No person among you doth eat blood, and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst doth not eat blood;
- DBY
- Therefore have I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall the stranger who sojourneth among you eat blood.
- DRC
- Therefore I have said to the children of Israel: No soul of you, nor of the strangers that sojourn among you, shall eat blood.
- GNV
- Therefore I saide vnto ye children of Israel, None of you shall eate blood: neither the stranger that soiourneth among you, shall eate blood.
- JPS
- Therefore I said unto the children of Israel: No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
- LXXE
- Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, and the stranger that abides among you shall not eat blood.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- עַל־כֵּ֤ן אָמַ֨רְתִּי֙ לִבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל כָּל־נֶ֥פֶשׁ מִכֶּ֖ם לֹא־תֹ֣אכַל דָּ֑ם וְהַגֵּ֛ר הַגָּ֥ר בְּתוֹכְכֶ֖ם לֹא־יֹ֥אכַל דָּֽם׃
- LXX-Br
- Διὰ τοῦτο εἴρηκα τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἰσραὴλ, πᾶσα ψυχὴ ἐξ ὑμῶν οὐ φάγεται αἷμα· καὶ ὁ προσήλυτος ὁ προσκείμενος ἐν ὑμῖν οὐ φάγεται αἷμα.
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
BloodStrangledStrangers in IsraelHolinessStranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament)SanctuarySanitationLaw in the Old TestamentLaw of MosesAtonement, Day of
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Cross-references most cited first
- Exodus 12:49The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
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