Leviticus 17:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ This is in order that the Israelites may bring their sacrifices that they offer in the open field, that they may bring them to the Lord, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and offer them as sacrifices of well-being to the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them for peace offerings unto the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ This is so that the Israelites, rather than offer their sacrifices [to idols] in the open field [where they slew them], may bring them to the Lord at the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, to offer them as peace offerings to the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, even that they may bring them unto Jehovah, unto the door of the tent of meeting, unto the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace-offerings unto Jehovah.

Common English Bible

⁵ This will make the Israelites bring the communal sacrifices, which they are sacrificing in the countryside, to the LORD, to the priest at the meeting tent’s entrance, and sacrifice them as communal sacrifices of well-being to the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Therefore, the sons of Israel must offer to the priest their victims, which they kill in the field, so that they may be sanctified to the Lord before the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and so that they may immolate them as peace offerings to the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Therefore the children of Israel shall bring to the priest their victims, which they kill in the field, that they may be sanctified to the Lord before the door of the tabernacle of the testimony: and they may sacrifice them for peace-offerings to the Lord.

Leviticus 17:5 Cross References

Genesis 21:33

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba and there called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

Genesis 22:13

And Abraham looked up and saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Genesis 22:2

He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.”

Genesis 31:54

and Jacob offered a sacrifice on the height and called his kinsfolk to eat bread, and they ate bread and tarried all night in the hill country.

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

1 Kings 3:2

The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the Lord.

1 Kings 3:3

Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and offered incense at the high places.

2 Kings 16:4

He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:10

they set up for themselves pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

2 Chronicles 28:4

He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Exodus 24:5

He sent young men of the Israelites, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed oxen as offerings of well-being to the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:28

For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing odors, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

Ezekiel 22:9

In you are those who slander to shed blood, those in you who eat upon the mountains, who commit lewdness in your midst.

Ezekiel 43:27

When these days are over, then from the eighth day onward the priests shall offer upon the altar your burnt offerings and your offerings of well-being, and I will accept you, says the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 44:15

“But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall attend me to offer me the fat and the blood, says the Lord God.

Leviticus 17:4

and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to present it as an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, he shall be held guilty of bloodshed; he has shed blood, and he shall be cut off from the people.

Leviticus 17:6

The priest shall dash the blood against the altar of the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting and turn the fat into smoke as a pleasing odor to the Lord,

Deuteronomy 12:2

“You must demolish completely all the places where the nations whom you are about to dispossess served their gods, on the mountain heights, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.