Leviticus 17:11 KJV — MannaFest

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.

KJV

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ASV

For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.

WEB

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.

YLT

for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar, to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood which maketh atonement for the soul.

DBT

for the soul of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul.

About this book

Old Testament

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Leviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.

Author: Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
Date: Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)

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The Scarlet Thread'The life of the flesh is in the blood' — atonement's theological anchor.

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Cross-references

27 verses on the floor

Hebrews 9:22
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Romans 3:25
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Mark 14:24
And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.

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): because it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul; and therefore it was appointed to make atonement with, because the life of the flesh is the blood.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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--God, as the sovereign author and proprietor of nature, reserved the blood to Himself and allowed men only one use of it--in the way of sacrifices.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Is in the blood - Depends upon the blood, is preserved and nourished by it. The blood maketh atonement - Typically, and in respect of the blood of Christ which it represented, by which the atonement is really made.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Where this verse connects

Quotation Echo Hebrews 9:22
'The life of the flesh is in the blood... it maketh atonement' -> 'apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.' The theological hinge.
TSK; Heb 9:22 as NT summary of Lev 17:11

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Trail

The Scarlet ThreadGod states the rule the whole thread runs on: atonement is by blood, life for life.

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H3722102× in canon H1320270× in canon H1818360× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

LEV 17:111JN 1:7 EPH 5:8
LEV 17:11REV 1:5 PSA 89:27
LEV 17:111JN 1:7 ROM 13:12
LEV 17:111JN 1:7 REV 1:5
LEV 17:11REV 1:5 HEB 9:14
LEV 17:111JN 1:7 EPH 1:7
LEV 17:11REV 1:5 1JN 1:7
LEV 17:11ROM 3:25 ROM 3:23-24

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