Leviticus 17:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ For the life (the animal soul) is in the blood, and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life [which it represents]. [Rom. 3:24-26.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.

Common English Bible

¹¹ A creature’s life is in the blood. I have provided you the blood to make reconciliation for your lives on the altar, because the blood reconciles by means of the life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you, so that you may atone with it upon the altar for your souls, and so that the blood may be for an expiation of the soul.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you, that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your souls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the soul.

Leviticus 17:11 Cross References

Genesis 9:4

Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Leviticus 1:5

The bull shall be slaughtered before the Lord, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall offer the blood, dashing the blood against all sides of the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Leviticus 16:11

“Aaron shall present the bull as a purification offering for himself and shall make atonement for himself and for his house; he shall slaughter the bull as a purification offering for himself.

Leviticus 17:12

Therefore I have said to the Israelites, ‘No person among you shall eat blood, nor shall any alien who resides among you eat blood.’

Leviticus 17:14

For the life of every creature—its blood is its life; therefore I have said to the Israelites, ‘You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.’

Leviticus 4:25

The priest shall take some of the blood of the purification offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.

Leviticus 4:26

All its fat he shall turn into smoke on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of well-being. Thus the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 8:15

and it was slaughtered. Moses took the blood and with his finger put some on each of the horns of the altar, purifying the altar; then he poured out the blood at the base of the altar. Thus he consecrated it, to make atonement for it.

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.”

Matthew 26:28

for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Mark 14:24

He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

Romans 3:25

whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed;

Romans 5:9

Much more surely, therefore, since we have now been justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God.

Ephesians 1:7

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

Deuteronomy 12:23

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.

Colossians 1:14

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:20

and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.

Hebrews 13:12

Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the city gate in order to sanctify the people by his own blood.

Hebrews 9:22

Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

1 Peter 1:2

who have been chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with his blood: May grace and peace be yours in abundance.

1 John 1:7

but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 2:2

and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood