Leviticus 17:12 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹² Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Therefore I have said to the Israelites, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who dwells temporarily among you eat blood.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹² That is why I have told the Israelites: No one among you can consume blood, nor can the immigrant who lives with you consume blood.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² For this reason, I have said to the sons of Israel: No soul among you shall eat blood, nor among the newcomers who sojourn with you.

Leviticus 17:12 Cross References

Exodus 12:49

There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.”

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: You eat flesh with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?

Leviticus 17:11

For the life of the flesh 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.

Leviticus 17:13

Any man also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust.

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”