Introduction
Further instructions about acceptable sacrifice and laws against eating blood.
Questions
1. What will happen to anyone who kills a bull, lamb or goat in a place other than at the door of the Tent of Meeting?
v 3 and 4 Whatever man there is of the house of Israel who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat in the camp, ... and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting ... That man shall be cut off from amongst his people.
2. Why does God forbid eating blood?
v 11and 12 For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No person amongst you may eat blood, ...
3. If someone eats a dead animal, what do they need to do?
v 15 Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals ... shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. ...
Summary Points
- v 1 to 9 All sacrifices are offered at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Anyone sacrificing in other places will be killed
- v 10 to 14 Blood is not to be eaten because the life is in the blood. Anyone doing so will be killed
v 15 and 16 Anyone eating a dead animal shall wash and be unclean for the rest of the day