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Leviticus 17: The life is in the blood

Read Leviticus 17 before you meet.

In a few lines

Leviticus 17 brings every sacrifice to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and gives the reason blood is never eaten, for Israel or the stranger: "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" (17:11). In Hebrew, "life" and "souls" there are one word. Even the hunter pours out the blood and covers it with dust (17:13).

The verse to carry

“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.”

Leviticus 17:11

To talk about

  1. 1. Israel was to bring every sacrifice to one door, "to the LORD" (17:5), and no more "to the goat idols" (17:7). What pulls your worship in other directions?

  2. 2. The LORD says of the blood on the altar, "I have given it to you" (17:11). What difference does it make that atonement starts with what God gives?

  3. 3. The law reached the hunter out in the field, far from the Tent (17:13). What would it look like to honor God in the ordinary places of your week?

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