Leviticus 17:5

New English Translation

This is so that the Israelites will bring their sacrifices that they are sacrificing in the open field to the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent to the priest and sacrifice them there as peace offering sacrifices to the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 21:33

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, the eternal God.

Genesis 22:13

Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Genesis 22:2

God said, “Take your son – your only son, whom you love, Isaac – and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you.”

Genesis 31:54

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.

1 Kings 14:23

They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

1 Kings 3:2

Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord.

1 Kings 3:3

Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following the practices of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

2 Kings 16:4

He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:10

They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

2 Chronicles 28:4

He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Exodus 24:5

He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:28

I brought them to the land which I swore to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoke me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.

Ezekiel 22:9

Slanderous men shed blood within you. Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; they commit obscene acts among you.

Ezekiel 43:27

When the prescribed period is over, on the eighth day and thereafter the priests will offer up on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; I will accept you, declares the sovereign Lord.”

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, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.

Leviticus 17:4

but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to present it as an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people.

Leviticus 17:6

The priest is to splash the blood on the altar of the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and offer the fat up in smoke for a soothing aroma to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:2

You must by all means destroy all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods – on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.