Leviticus 4:16

4:16 Then the high priest ¹  must bring some of the blood of the bull to the Meeting Tent,

Leviticus 7:26

7:26 And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live. ² 

Leviticus 8:19

8:19 and he slaughtered it. ³  Moses then splashed the blood against the altar’s sides.

Leviticus 19:26

Blood, Hair, and Body

19:26 “‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. ⁴  You must not practice either divination or soothsaying. ⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “the anointed priest” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). This refers to the high priest (cf. TEV).

² tn Heb “and any blood you must not eat in any of your dwelling places, to the bird and to the animal.”

³ tn Aaron probably did the slaughtering (cf. the notes on Lev 8:15-16 above).

⁴ tn Heb “You shall not eat on the blood.” See the extensive remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 319-20, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 132-33. The LXX has “on the mountains,” suggesting that this is a prohibition against illegitimate places and occasions of worship, not the eating of blood.

⁵ tn Heb “You shall not practice divination and you shall not practice soothsaying”; cf. NRSV “practice augury or witchcraft.” For suggestions regarding the practices involved see B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 133, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 320.