12Therefore I say to the Israelites, "None of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood."


In Context

9 and does not bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to the Lord -that man must be cut off from his people.

10 " 'Any Israelite or any alien living among them who eats any blood-I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.

11 For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life.

12 Therefore I say to the Israelites, "None of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood."

13 " 'Any Israelite or any alien living among you who hunts any animal or bird that may be eaten must drain out the blood and cover it with earth,

14 because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, "You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off."

Leviticus 17:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:12Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:12Therefore I have said to the children of Israel: No soul of you, nor of the strangers that sojourn among you, shall eat blood.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:12Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:12Therefore 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:12Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:12Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:12Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, |No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:12'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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:12Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojournes among you eat blood.