The Use and Misuse of Blood

17 The Lord told Moses ² to speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and to tell them that this is what the Lord has commanded:

³ If anyone from the house of Israel slaughters a head of cattle or a sheep or a goat in the camp or slaughters it outside the camp ⁴ without bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting ⎣to sacrifice it for a burnt offering or fellowship offering to the Lord to be acceptable as a pleasant aroma, and if anyone slaughters it outside the camp and does not bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting⎦^[a] to present it as an offering to the Lord at the Dwelling of the Lord, guilt for blood will be charged to that man. He has shed blood. That man will be cut off from the midst of his people. ⁵ This is so that the Israelites will bring the sacrifices that they have been offering in the open country to the Lord at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, to the priest. They will sacrifice them as fellowship offerings to the Lord ⁶ so that the priest may splash the blood against the altar of the Lord at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and turn the fat into smoke as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, ⁷ so that they no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons, to which they have been prostituting themselves. This shall be a permanent regulation for them throughout their generations.

⁸ Tell them that if anyone from the house of Israel or from the aliens who reside among them offers up a burnt offering or a sacrifice ⁹ and does not bring it into the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to offer it to the Lord, that man will be cut off from his people.