Leviticus 17:10 (KJV)

Words Then and Now

sojourn to live for a time as a stranger Still heard today: a brief sojourn in Paris, a stay as a visitor Webster’s 1828 · Sojourn

What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.

Thou and Ye

you more than one

In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?

Matthew Henry

Eating of blood, or of animals which died a natural death, forbiddenHere is a confirmation of the law against eating blood. They must eat no blood. But this law was ceremonial, and is now no longer in force; the coming of the...

Thompson Chains

God's Face HiddenSee the chain from Deuteronomy 31:18 · 7 links
Blood ForbiddenSee the chain from Genesis 9:4 · 6 links
Strangers (3)See the chain from Exodus 12:19 · 6 links

Cross References

Leviticus 3:17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Genesis 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Deuteronomy 12:16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Deuteronomy 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.
1 Samuel 14:33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
Jeremiah 44:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
Leviticus 7:26–27 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. …
Leviticus 26:17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
Psalms 34:16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Ezekiel 14:8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 15:7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
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.
Leviticus 19:26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
Leviticus 20:3–6 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. …
Deuteronomy 15:23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
Jeremiah 21:10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
Ezekiel 33:25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
Ezekiel 44:7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Hebrews 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

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Topics

Blood Forbidden to be used as food
Sanitation Food
Strangers Their eating blood

Timeline

Timeline of the Bible1491–1451 BC · Israel in the Wilderness

Bible Dictionary

IsraelThe name conferred on Jacob after the great prayer-struggle at Peniel (Gen 32:28), because “as a prince he had power with God and...

Hebrew and Strong’s

And whatsoever man וְאִישׁ wĕʾîš אִישׁ Noun · masculine singular · with and אִישׁ ʾîš אִישׁ Noun · masculine singular
of the house מִבֵּית mibbêt בַּיִת Noun · masculine singular construct · with preposition
of Israel יִשְׂרָאֵל yiśrāʾēl יִשְׂרָאֵל Proper name
or of the strangers הַגֵּר haggēr גֵּר Noun · masculine singular · with the
that sojourn הַגָּר haggār גּוּר Verb · qal active participle, masculine singular · with the
among וּמִן ûmin Preposition · with and בְּתוֹכָם bĕtôkām תָּוֶךְ Noun · masculine singular construct · with preposition, suffix: third person masculine plural
you, that eateth אֲשֶׁר ʾăšer Relative יֹאכַל yōʾkal אָכַל Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine singular
any manner of blood כָּל kol Noun · masculine singular construct דָּם dām דָּם Noun · masculine singular
I will even set וְנָתַתִּי wĕnātattî נָתַן Verb · qal sequential perfect, first person common singular · with and
my face פָנַי pānay פָּנִים Noun · masculine or feminine plural construct · with suffix: first person common singular
against that soul בַּנֶּפֶשׁ bannepeš נֶפֶשׁ Noun · masculine or feminine singular · with preposition with the
that eateth הָאֹכֶלֶת hāʾōkelet אָכַל Verb · qal active participle, feminine singular · with the
blood אֶת ʾet Object marker הַדָּם haddām דָּם Noun · masculine singular · with the
and will cut him off וְהִכְרַתִּי wĕhikrattî כָּרַת Verb · hiphil sequential perfect, first person common singular · with and
from among אֹתָהּ ʾōtāh Object marker · with suffix: third person feminine singular מִקֶּרֶב miqqereb קֶרֶב Noun · masculine singular construct · with preposition
his people עַמָּהּ ʿammāh עַם Noun · masculine singular construct · with suffix: third person feminine singular

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