Leviticus 17:11
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.
KJV
quia anima carnis in sanguine est : et ego dedi illum vobis, ut super altare in eo expietis pro animabus vestris, et sanguis pro animæ piaculo sit.
Vulgate
ἡ γὰρ ψυχὴ πάσης σαρκὸς αἷμα αὐτοῦ ἐστιν, καὶ ἐγὼ δέδωκα αὐτὸ ὑμῖν ἐπὶ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου ἐξιλάσκεσθαι περὶ τῶν ψυχῶν ὑμῶν· τὸ γὰρ αἷμα αὐτοῦ ἀντὶ τῆς ψυχῆς ἐξιλάσεται.
LXX
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.
ASV
כִּ֣י נֶ֣פֶשׁ הַ/בָּשָׂר֮ בַּ/דָּ֣ם הִוא֒ וַ/אֲנִ֞י נְתַתִּ֤י/ו לָ/כֶם֙ עַל הַ/מִּזְבֵּ֔חַ לְ/כַפֵּ֖ר עַל נַפְשֹׁתֵי/כֶ֑ם כִּֽי הַ/דָּ֥ם ה֖וּא בַּ/נֶּ֥פֶשׁ יְכַפֵּֽר
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4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- 1John 1:7 — But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
- 1John 2:2 — And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
- 1John 5:6 — This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
- 1Pet 1:2 — Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
- Col 1:14 — In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
- Col 1:20 — And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
- Deut 12:23 — Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
- Deut 12:27 — And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou
- Eph 1:7 — In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
- Exod 30:15 — The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
- Gen 9:4 — But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
- Heb 9:22 — And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
- Heb 9:22 — And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
- Heb 13:12 — Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
- Lev 8:15 — And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it
- Lev 16:11 — And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for him
- Lev 16:14 — And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
- Lev 17:10 — And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will c
- Lev 17:14 — For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the b
- Lev 17:14 — For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the b
- Mark 14:24 — And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
- Matt 20:28 — Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
- Matt 26:28 — For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
- Matt 26:28 — For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
- Rev 1:5 — And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
- Rom 3:25 — Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
- Rom 5:9 — Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.