Leviticus 17:12 BSB

Leviticus 17:12

Therefore I say to the Israelites, ‘None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.’

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

KJV

Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, no soul of you shall eat blood,.... Great or small as Jarchi observes, for the reason above given; which, though not expressed before, was the true reason of this law, which had been given before, and now repeated; see Lev 3:17, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood; any proselyte of righteousness; this is not observed before.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עַל־	'al-	there-	H5921 →
כֵּ֤ן	ken	-fore	H3651 →
אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙	'a.Mar.ti	I have said	H559 →
לִבְנֵ֣י	liv.Nei	to [the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
כָּל־	kol-	any	H3605 →
נֶ֥פֶשׁ	Ne.fesh	person	H5315 →
מִכֶּ֖ם	mi.Kem	from <the> you
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
תֹ֣אכַל	To.khal	it will eat	H398 →
דָּ֑ם	Dam	blood	H1818 →
וְהַגֵּ֛ר	ve.ha.Ger	and the sojourner	H1616 →
הַגָּ֥ר	ha.Gar	who sojourns	H1481 →
בְּתוֹכְכֶ֖ם	be.tokh.Khem	in midst of you	H8432 →
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
יֹ֥אכַל	Yo.khal	he will eat	H398 →
דָּֽם׃ ס	Dam	blood	H1818 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 12:49
The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
leads to
- Numbers 15:15–16
  The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same…
- Numbers 15:29
  You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.
- Leviticus 24:22
  You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”
- Numbers 9:14
  If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute…
- Galatians 3:28
  There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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