Leviticus 17:5
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.
Context
This verse from Leviticus Chapter 17 connects to 10 cross-references. All slaughter of animals must be brought to the tabernacle entrance as an offering; slaughtering elsewhere is treated as murder. The strict prohibition on consuming blood is reiterated with its theological rationale: the life is in the blood, and God …
Other Translations
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.
so that the sons of Israel do bring in their sacrifices which they are sacrificing on the face of the field, yea, they have brought them in to Jehovah, unto the opening of the tent of meeting, unto the priest, and they have sacrificed sacrifices of peace-offerings to Jehovah with them.
So that the children of Israel may take to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting and to the priest, the offerings which they have put to death in the open country, and that they may make their peace-offerings to the Lord.
Cross References
And Abraham planted a grove in Beer–sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land …
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his …
Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and …
And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen …
And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be …
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the Lord.
Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any …
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high …