Leviticus 17:4
Hebrew Bible
2 “Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites, and tell them, ‘This is the word that the Lord has commanded, 3 “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, 4 but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to present it as an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people. 5 This is so that the Israelites will bring their sacrifices that they are sacrificing in the open field to the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent—to the priest—and sacrifice them there as peace-offering sacrifices to the Lord.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX Leviticus 17:4
Septuagint
2 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel, and say to them, ‘This is the instruction that the Lord charged, saying 3 “A person a person of the sons of Israel or of the resident aliens or those who are abiding among you, whoever slaughters a young bull or a sheep or a goat in the encampment, and whoever does the slaughtering outside the encampment 4 and does not bring it at the entrance of the tent of testimony in order to present it as a whole burnt offering or as an offering of well-being for the Lord, approved as a sweet-smelling aroma, and whoever does the slaughtering outside and does not bring it at the entrance of the tent of the testimony so that he does not present it as a gift for the Lord in front of the tent of the Lord, then blood will be reckoned to that person; he has shed blood. That person will be utterly destroyed from his people 5 This is so that the sons of Israel will bring and present their sacrifices, whatever they themselves slaughter in the fields and bring to the Lord at the entrances of the tent of testimony to the priest. And they will sacrifice them as a sacrifice of peace to the Lord
Date: 3rd Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... A further difficulty posed by Leviticus 17:3-7 is the textual variation in the key verses 3-4 preserved in the ancient witnesses; and it is this textual variation that makes these verses a particularly fascinating case study of how evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls can reframe classical issues in Pentateuchal research. In the LXX, Samaritan Pentateuch, and one manuscript from Qumran, 4QLev (4Q26), verse 4 contains a lengthy plus over against the shorter text preserved in Masoretic text and another manuscript from Qumran, namely 11QpaleoLev (11Q1). The plus offers an expanded description of the offering that is to be presented by the person who wishes to slaughter his or her livestock for food. The length of the plus is particularly striking given the high degree of uniformity that usually characterizes the text of Leviticus ..."
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