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A priest holds sacrificial blood beside the altar. The accompanying verses forbid Israelites and sojourners to eat blood, explaining that life is in the blood and that it is given on the altar for atonement.
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Leviticus 17:10-12

Life reserved for the altar

The Sanctity of Blood · Leviticus 17

Story guide: A priest holds sacrificial blood beside the altar. The accompanying verses forbid Israelites and sojourners to eat blood, explaining that life is in the blood and that it is given on the altar for atonement.

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10And any man from the house of Israel, or from the sojourner who sojourns among them, who eats any blood—I will set my face against the person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from among his people.

11For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.

12Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘No person among you shall eat blood, and the sojourner who sojourns among you shall not eat blood.’

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