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class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/bsb/leviticus/17.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/leviticus/17.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />Any Israelite who sacrifices an ox, a lamb or a goat in the camp or outside of it<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/leviticus/17.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />“If any native Israelite sacrifices a bull or a lamb or a goat anywhere inside or outside the camp<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/leviticus/17.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />If any one of the house of Israel kills an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/17.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />‘Anyone from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, a lamb, or a goat in the camp or outside of it<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/leviticus/17.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />What man soever <i>there be</i> of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth <i>it</i> out of the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/leviticus/17.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“Whatever man of the house of Israel who kills an ox or lamb or goat in the camp, or who kills <i>it</i> outside the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/leviticus/17.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Anyone from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, a lamb, or a goat in the camp, or slaughters it outside the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/leviticus/17.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/leviticus/17.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, or a lamb, or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/leviticus/17.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/leviticus/17.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“Any man from the house of Israel who kills an ox or lamb or goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/leviticus/17.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Anyone from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, sheep, or goat in the camp, or slaughters it outside the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/leviticus/17.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Anyone from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, sheep, or goat in the camp, or slaughters it outside the camp, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/leviticus/17.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it without the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/leviticus/17.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it without the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/leviticus/17.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Any Israelite who slaughters a bull, sheep, or goat inside or outside the camp<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/leviticus/17.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />When a person from the house of Israel slaughters an ox, a lamb, or a goat (whether in the camp or outside the camp), <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/leviticus/17.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />?Anyone from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, a lamb, or a goat in the camp or outside of it<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/leviticus/17.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />"Blood guilt will be accounted to any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/leviticus/17.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/leviticus/17.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Whatever man there may be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/leviticus/17.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Whatever man there is of the house of Israel who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp, <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/leviticus/17.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Any man of the house of Israel who slaughters ox, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or who slaughters [it] at the outside of the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/leviticus/17.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Any man of the house of Israel who slaughtereth ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who slaughtereth at the outside of the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/leviticus/17.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />A man, a man from the house of Israel, who shall slaughter an ox or lamb or goat, in the camp, or who shall slaughter without the camp,<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/leviticus/17.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Any man whosoever of the house of Israel if he kill an ox, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp, or without the camp, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/leviticus/17.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Any man at all of the house of Israel, if he will have killed an ox, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp or beyond the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/leviticus/17.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Any Israelite who slaughters an ox or a sheep or a goat, whether in the camp or outside of it,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/leviticus/17.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />If anyone of the house of Israel slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or slaughters it outside the camp,<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/leviticus/17.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Any man whosoever be of the house of Israel, who kills an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/leviticus/17.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />‘A man of the children of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or goat in the camp or who slaughters outside of the camp,<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/leviticus/17.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it without the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/leviticus/17.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Every man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers abiding among you, who shall kill a calf, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp, or who shall kill it out of the camp,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/leviticus/17-3.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NWs_V1RyMFo?start=4572" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/17.htm">The Place of Sacrifice</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">2</span>“Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them this is what the LORD has commanded: <span class="reftext">3</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/376.htm" title="376: ’îš (N-ms) -- Man. Contracted for 'enowsh; a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term.">‘Anyone</a> <a href="/hebrew/376.htm" title="376: ’îš (N-ms) -- Man. Contracted for 'enowsh; a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: mib·bêṯ (Prep-m:: N-msc) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">from the house</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">of Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">who</a> <a href="/hebrew/7819.htm" title="7819: yiš·ḥaṭ (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To slaughter, beat. A primitive root; to slaughter.">slaughters</a> <a href="/hebrew/7794.htm" title="7794: šō·wr (N-ms) -- A head of cattle (bullock, ox, etc.). From shuwr; a bullock.">an ox,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3775.htm" title="3775: ḵe·śeḇ (N-ms) -- A lamb. Apparently by transposition for kebes; a young sheep.">a lamb,</a> <a href="/hebrew/176.htm" title="176: ’ōw- (Conj) -- Or. Presumed to be the constructive or genitival form of -av; short for 'avvah; desire; hence or, also if.">or</a> <a href="/hebrew/5795.htm" title="5795: ‘êz (N-fs) -- Female goat. From azaz; a she-goat, but masculine in plural.">a goat</a> <a href="/hebrew/4264.htm" title="4264: bam·ma·ḥă·neh (Prep-b, Art:: N-cs) -- An encampment, camp. From chanah; an encampment; hence, an army, whether literal or figurative.">in the camp</a> <a href="/hebrew/176.htm" title="176: ’ōw (Conj) -- Or. Presumed to be the constructive or genitival form of -av; short for 'avvah; desire; hence or, also if."></a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/176.htm" title="176: ’ōw- (Conj) -- Or. Presumed to be the constructive or genitival form of -av; short for 'avvah; desire; hence or, also if."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7819.htm" title="7819: yiš·ḥaṭ (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To slaughter, beat. A primitive root; to slaughter."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2351.htm" title="2351: mi·ḥūṣ (Prep-m:: N-msc) -- The outside, a street. Or chuts; from an unused root meaning to sever; properly, separate by a wall, i.e. Outside, outdoors.">or outside</a> <a href="/hebrew/4264.htm" title="4264: lam·ma·ḥă·neh (Prep-l, Art:: N-cs) -- An encampment, camp. From chanah; an encampment; hence, an army, whether literal or figurative.">of it</a> </span><span class="reftext">4</span>instead of bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before His tabernacle—that man shall incur bloodguilt. He has shed blood and must be cut off from among his people.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-5.htm">Deuteronomy 12:5-7</a></span><br />Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go. / To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks. / There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-13.htm">Deuteronomy 12:13-14</a></span><br />Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see; / you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-20.htm">Deuteronomy 12:20-21</a></span><br />When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want. / If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/8-63.htm">1 Kings 8:63</a></span><br />And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/7-4.htm">2 Chronicles 7:4-5</a></span><br />Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD. / And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/20-24.htm">Exodus 20:24</a></span><br />You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/29-10.htm">Exodus 29:10-11</a></span><br />You are to present the bull at the front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head. / And you shall slaughter the bull before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/15-3.htm">Numbers 15:3</a></span><br />and you present a food offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/18-17.htm">Numbers 18:17</a></span><br />But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to splatter their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/1-24.htm">1 Samuel 1:24-25</a></span><br />Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. / And when they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/2-13.htm">1 Samuel 2:13-15</a></span><br />or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling / and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh. / Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/20-40.htm">Ezekiel 20:40</a></span><br />For on My holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land. There I will accept them and will require your offerings and choice gifts, along with all your holy sacrifices.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/1-7.htm">Malachi 1:7-8</a></span><br />By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible. / When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/9-12.htm">Hebrews 9:12-14</a></span><br />He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption. / For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean, / how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/10-1.htm">Hebrews 10:1-4</a></span><br />For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. / If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins. / Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that kills it out of the camp,</p><p class="hdg">be of</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/17-8.htm">Leviticus 17:8,12,13,15</a></b></br> And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man <i>there be</i> of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice, … </p><p class="hdg">that killeth an</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/12-5.htm">Deuteronomy 12:5-7,11-15,20-22,26,27</a></b></br> But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, <i>even</i> unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/16-27.htm">Bull</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-28.htm">Camp</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-1.htm">Death</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-27.htm">Goat</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-17.htm">House</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-2.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-5.htm">Israelite</a> <a href="/revelation/13-10.htm">Killeth</a> <a href="/exodus/22-1.htm">Kills</a> <a href="/leviticus/14-25.htm">Lamb</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-27.htm">Outside</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-18.htm">Ox</a> <a href="/leviticus/15-11.htm">Puts</a> <a href="/leviticus/10-14.htm">Sacrifices</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-5.htm">Sheep</a> <a href="/leviticus/14-13.htm">Slaughtereth</a> <a href="/exodus/22-1.htm">Slaughters</a> <a href="/leviticus/15-9.htm">Soever</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-28.htm">Tent-Circle</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-20.htm">Whatever</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/leviticus/22-23.htm">Bull</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-10.htm">Camp</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-5.htm">Death</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-7.htm">Goat</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-8.htm">House</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-5.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-8.htm">Israelite</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-17.htm">Killeth</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-17.htm">Kills</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-23.htm">Lamb</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-9.htm">Outside</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-23.htm">Ox</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-25.htm">Puts</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-5.htm">Sacrifices</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-21.htm">Sheep</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-24.htm">Slaughtereth</a> <a href="/exodus/22-1.htm">Slaughters</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-4.htm">Soever</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-14.htm">Tent-Circle</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-8.htm">Whatever</a><div class="vheading2">Leviticus 17</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/17-1.htm">The blood of slain beasts must be offered to the Lord at the tabernacle door</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/17-7.htm">They must not offer to idols</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/17-10.htm">All eating of blood is forbidden</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/17-15.htm">and of all that dies by itself, or is torn</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The "house of Israel" signifies not just individuals but the nation as a whole, bound by the laws given through Moses. This collective identity is crucial in understanding the communal nature of worship and obedience in the Old Testament. It also foreshadows the New Testament concept of the Church as the body of Christ, a collective entity.<p><b>who slaughters an ox, a lamb, or a goat</b><br>These animals were commonly used in sacrificial offerings, each having specific roles in the sacrificial system. The ox, lamb, and goat were integral to various offerings, including sin offerings, peace offerings, and burnt offerings. The act of slaughtering these animals was not merely a ritual but a deeply symbolic act representing atonement, thanksgiving, and fellowship with God. This prefigures the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world (<a href="/john/1-29.htm">John 1:29</a>).<p><b>in the camp or outside of it</b><br>This phrase highlights the geographical and ritual boundaries set by God for the Israelites. The camp represents the organized community of Israel during their wilderness journey, a place where God's presence dwelt among them in the Tabernacle. Sacrifices were to be made at the Tabernacle, emphasizing the centrality of God's presence and the importance of proper worship. Offering sacrifices outside the designated area could lead to idolatry or syncretism, which were constant threats to Israel's faithfulness. This underscores the importance of worshiping God according to His instructions, a theme that resonates throughout Scripture, including in the New Testament teachings on worship in spirit and truth (<a href="/john/4-24.htm">John 4:24</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/h/house_of_israel.htm">House of Israel</a></b><br>Refers to the collective people of Israel, God's chosen nation, who were given the Law through Moses.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/o/ox,_lamb,_goat.htm">Ox, Lamb, Goat</a></b><br>These animals were commonly used in sacrifices and offerings, each having specific significance in the sacrificial system.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_camp.htm">The Camp</a></b><br>Represents the dwelling place of the Israelites during their wilderness journey, a place of community and worship.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/o/outside_the_camp.htm">Outside the Camp</a></b><br>Indicates actions taken away from the communal and sacred space, often associated with uncleanness or separation.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_obedience.htm">The Importance of Obedience</a></b><br>God requires His people to follow His commands precisely, emphasizing the importance of obedience in worship.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/sacredness_of_sacrifice.htm">Sacredness of Sacrifice</a></b><br>Sacrifices were not just rituals but acts of worship that required reverence and adherence to God's instructions.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_and_worship.htm">Community and Worship</a></b><br>Worship is a communal act, and the regulations highlight the importance of unity and shared faith practices.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/separation_from_pagan_practices.htm">Separation from Pagan Practices</a></b><br>The command to sacrifice within the camp underscores the need to separate from pagan rituals and maintain purity in worship.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/christ_as_the_ultimate_sacrifice.htm">Christ as the Ultimate Sacrifice</a></b><br>The sacrificial system points to Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice outside the camp fulfills and transcends the Old Testament offerings.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_leviticus_17.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Leviticus 17</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_did_distant_israelites_follow_lev._17.htm">Since Leviticus 17 requires sacrifices at one specific location, how did ancient Israelites living far away or outside Israel consistently adhere to this command?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/could_a_prophet_redeem_an_adulterous_wife.htm">Given the cultural norms of Hosea's time, is it plausible that a prophet would buy back and restore an adulterous wife as portrayed in Hosea 3?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_god_demand_flawless_sacrifices.htm">In Deuteronomy 17:1, why does God demand a flawless sacrifice instead of focusing on inward devotion?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_'stand_fast_in_faith'_mean.htm">What are Garments of Skin in biblical context?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/leviticus/17.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(3) <span class= "bld">That killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat.</span>--The law which is thus solemnly laid down is that when one of the three kinds of the sacrificial quadrupeds (see <a href="/leviticus/7-23.htm" title="Speak to the children of Israel, saying, You shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.">Leviticus 7:23</a>) are intended for private use, they must not be slaughtered within or outside the camp. That the injunction here refers to the domestic animals in question, and not to the ordinary sacrifices, is not only evident from the expression "killeth," instead of "sacrificeth," but more especially from a comparison of <a href="/context/leviticus/17-3.htm" title="What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that kills it out of the camp,">Leviticus 17:3-4</a> with <a href="/context/leviticus/17-8.htm" title="And you shall say to them, Whatever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,">Leviticus 17:8-9</a>.<span class= "bld"><p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/leviticus/17.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 3.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">What man soever there</span> be <span class="cmt_word">of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox,</span> <span class="cmt_word">or lamb, or goat.</span> The use of the word <span class="accented">killeth</span>, instead of <span class="accented">sacrificeth</span>, is one of the chief causes of the error referred to above, which represents this command as applying to the slaughter of domestic animals. But it is always permissible to use a generic in place of a specific term, and its use proves nothing. Probably the sacred writer uses it as a less sacred term, and therefore more suitable to sacrifices offered to the spirits of the fields and woods. If ordinary slaughtering were meant, there is no reason why pigeons and turtle-doves should not be added to the <span class="accented">ox, or lamb, or goat.</span> That every ox, <span class="accented">or lamb, or goat</span>, to be killed <span class="cmt_word">in the camp, or... out of the camp,</span> for the food of more than 600,000 men, should be brought to so confined a space as the court of the tabernacle for slaughter, where the animals for the daily, weekly, annual, and innumerable private sacrifices were also killed, appears almost credible in itself. How would the drivers have made their way into it? and what would have soon been the state of the court? It is true that animal food was not the staple sustenance of the Israelites in the wilderness; but not unfrequently, after a successful war or raid, there must have been a vast number of cattle killed for feasting or reserved for subsequent eating. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/leviticus/17-3.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">‘Anyone</span><br /><span class="heb">אִ֥ישׁ</span> <span class="translit">(’îš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_376.htm">Strong's 376: </a> </span><span class="str2">A man as an individual, a male person</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from the house</span><br /><span class="heb">מִבֵּ֣ית</span> <span class="translit">(mib·bêṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> </span><span class="str2">A house</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Israel</span><br /><span class="heb">יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל</span> <span class="translit">(yiś·rā·’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">who</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲשֶׁ֨ר</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·šer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - relative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that</span><br /><br /><span class="word">slaughters</span><br /><span class="heb">יִשְׁחַ֜ט</span> <span class="translit">(yiš·ḥaṭ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7819.htm">Strong's 7819: </a> </span><span class="str2">To slaughter, beat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">an ox,</span><br /><span class="heb">שׁ֥וֹר</span> <span class="translit">(šō·wr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7794.htm">Strong's 7794: </a> </span><span class="str2">A head of cattle (bullock, ox, etcetera)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a lamb,</span><br /><span class="heb">כֶ֛שֶׂב</span> <span class="translit">(ḵe·śeḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3775.htm">Strong's 3775: </a> </span><span class="str2">A young sheep</span><br /><br /><span class="word">or</span><br /><span class="heb">אוֹ־</span> <span class="translit">(’ōw-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_176.htm">Strong's 176: </a> </span><span class="str2">Desire, if</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a goat</span><br /><span class="heb">עֵ֖ז</span> <span class="translit">(‘êz)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5795.htm">Strong's 5795: </a> </span><span class="str2">Female goat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in the camp</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה</span> <span class="translit">(bam·ma·ḥă·neh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4264.htm">Strong's 4264: </a> </span><span class="str2">An encampment, an army</span><br /><br /><span class="word">or outside</span><br /><span class="heb">מִח֖וּץ</span> <span class="translit">(mi·ḥūṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2351.htm">Strong's 2351: </a> </span><span class="str2">Separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of [it]</span><br /><span class="heb">לַֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(lam·ma·ḥă·neh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l, Article | Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4264.htm">Strong's 4264: </a> </span><span class="str2">An encampment, an army</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/leviticus/17-3.htm">Leviticus 17:3 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/leviticus/17-3.htm">Leviticus 17:3 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/leviticus/17-3.htm">Leviticus 17:3 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/leviticus/17-3.htm">Leviticus 17:3 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/leviticus/17-3.htm">Leviticus 17:3 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/leviticus/17-3.htm">Leviticus 17:3 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/17-3.htm">Leviticus 17:3 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/leviticus/17-3.htm">Leviticus 17:3 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/leviticus/17-3.htm">Leviticus 17:3 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/leviticus/17-3.htm">Leviticus 17:3 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/leviticus/17-3.htm">OT Law: Leviticus 17:3 Whatever man there is of the house (Le Lv Lev.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/leviticus/17-2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 17:2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 17:2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/leviticus/17-4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 17:4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 17:4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>