Leviticus 17:5

Modern English Version

This is so that the Israelites may bring their sacrifices which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them to the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest, and offer them for peace offerings to the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 21:33

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called 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. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up as a burnt offering in the place of his son.

Genesis 22:2

Then 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 of which I will tell you.”

Genesis 31:54

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his kinsmen to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain.

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built high places and images and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

1 Kings 3:2

The people were sacrificing at the high places, 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, though he sacrificed and burned 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 standing stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

2 Chronicles 28:4

He even made sacrifices and offered incense on the high places of the hills and under every green tree.

Exodus 24:5

He sent young men of Israel who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of young bulls to the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:28

When I had brought them into the land for which I lifted up My hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill and all the leafy trees, and there they offered their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There also they made their sweet aroma and there poured out their drink offerings.

Ezekiel 22:9

In you are men who carry slanders to shed blood. And in you they eat at the mountain shrines. In your midst they commit lewdness.

Ezekiel 43:27

When they have completed the days, it shall be that on the eighth day and forward, the priests shall present your burnt offerings and your peace offerings upon the altar. 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 Israelites went astray from Me, they shall come near to Me to minister to Me, and they shall stand before Me to offer to 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 offer it as a gift to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, then blood guilt shall be accounted to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 17:6

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

Deuteronomy 12:2

You must utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you will possess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.