11 For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have appointed it to you to make atonement on the altar for[a] your lives, since it is the lifeblood that makes atonement.(A) 12 Therefore I say to the Israelites: None of you and no alien who resides among you may eat blood.

13 “Any Israelite or alien residing among them, who hunts(B) down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood(C) and cover it with dirt.

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Footnotes

  1. 17:11 Or to ransom

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