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Leviticus 17:10-16 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

10. I will turn against any of my people who eat blood. This also includes any foreigners living among you.

11. Life is in the blood, and I have given you the blood of animals to sacrifice in place of your own.

12. That's also why I have forbidden you to eat blood.

13. Even if you should hunt and kill a bird or an animal, you must drain out the blood and cover it with soil.

14. The life of every living creature is in its blood. That's why I have forbidden you to eat blood and why I have warned you that anyone who does will no longer belong to my people.

15. If you happen to find a dead animal and eat it, you must take a bath and wash your clothes, but you are still unclean until evening.

16. If you don't take a bath, you will suffer for what you did wrong.

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