Leviticus 17:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they slay in the open field, that they may bring them to the Lord, to the priest at the door of the tent of meeting, and slay them as sacrifices of peace offerings 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 called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

Genesis 22:13

And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns; and 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 upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

Genesis 31:54

and Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his kinsmen to eat bread; and they ate bread and tarried all night on the mountain.

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Asherim 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 David his father; only, he sacrificed and burnt incense at the high places.

2 Kings 16:4

And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:10

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

2 Chronicles 28:4

And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Exodus 24:5

And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:28

For when I had brought them into the land which 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 soothing odors, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

Ezekiel 22:9

There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and men in you who eat upon the mountains; men commit lewdness in your midst.

Ezekiel 43:27

And when they have completed these days, then from the eighth day onward the priests shall offer upon the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 44:15

“But the Levitical priests, the sons 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 on me to offer me the fat and the blood, says the Lord God;

Leviticus 17:4

and does not bring it to the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as a gift to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man; he has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 17:6

and the priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the Lord at the door of the tent of meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasing odor to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:2

You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree;