Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
for the soul of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul.
New American Standard Bible
For
King James Version
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Holman Bible
For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have appointed it to you to make atonement on the altar for
International Standard Version
because the life of the flesh is in the blood itself, and I myself have given it to you all so that atonement may be made for your souls on the altar, since the blood itself makes atonement through the life that is in it.
A Conservative Version
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.
American Standard Version
For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.
Amplified
For the
Bible in Basic English
For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.
Julia Smith Translation
For the soul of the flesh it is in the blood; and I gave it to you upon the altar to expiate for your souls: for the blood shall expiate for the soul.
King James 2000
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Indeed the flesh's life [is] in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, because it [is] the blood with the life that makes atonement.
Modern King James verseion
For the life of the flesh is in the blood. And I have given it to you on the altar to make an atonement for your souls. For it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
for the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it unto you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls, for blood shall make an atonement for the soul.
NET Bible
for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.
New Heart English Bible
For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and 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.
The Emphasized Bible
For as for the life of the flesh, in the blood, it is, therefore have, I, given it unto you upon the altar, to put a propitiatory-covering over your lives, - for the blood, it is, which, by virtue of the life, maketh propitiation.
Webster
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
World English Bible
For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar, to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood which maketh atonement for the soul.
Themes
Blood » Forbidden to be used as food
Blood » Of sacrifices, typical of the blood of Christ » Atoning
Blood » Of legal sacrifices » For atonement
Blood » Sacrificial » Of atonement » Sprinkled on the mercy seat
Topics
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 17:11
Prayers for Leviticus 17:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eating Blood And Carcasses Prohibited
10 And every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood, I will set my face against the soul that hath eaten blood, and will cut him off from among his people; 11 for the soul of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul. 12 Therefore have I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall the stranger who sojourneth among you eat blood.
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Cross References
Hebrews 9:22
and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and without blood-shedding there is no remission.
Matthew 26:28
For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, that shed for many for remission of sins.
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and has washed us from our sins in his blood,
Leviticus 17:14
for as to the life of all flesh, its blood is the life in it; and I have said unto the children of Israel, Of the blood of no manner of flesh shall ye eat, for the life of all flesh is its blood: whoever eateth it shall be cut off.
Mark 14:24
And he said to them, This is my blood, that of the new covenant, that shed for many.
Romans 3:25
whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;
Romans 5:9
Much rather therefore, having been now justified in the power of his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.
Ephesians 1:7
in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace;
Colossians 1:14
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;
Colossians 1:20
and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.
Hebrews 13:12
Wherefore also Jesus, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate:
Genesis 9:4
Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.
Leviticus 8:15
and he slaughtered it, and Moses took the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and cleansed the altar from sin, and the blood he poured at the bottom of the altar, and hallowed it, making atonement for it.
Leviticus 16:11
And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall slaughter the bullock of the sin-offering which is for himself.
Leviticus 16:14-19
And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle with his finger upon the front of the mercy-seat eastward; and before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the blood seven times with his finger.
Matthew 20:28
as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
1 Peter 1:2
elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by sanctification of the Spirit, unto the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
1 John 2:2
and he is the propitiation for our sins; but not for ours alone, but also for the whole world.