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## Leviticus 17:14-16 in Context (Verses 11–16 KJV)
 
 [11 ](/kjv/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.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/leviticus/17/12) Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/leviticus/17/13) And whatsoever man *there be* of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.*
 
 [14 ](/kjv/leviticus/17/14) For *it is* the life of all flesh; the blood of it *is* for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh *is* the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/leviticus/17/15) And every soul that eateth that which died *of itself*, or that which was torn *with beasts, whether it be* one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe *himself* in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.*
 
 [16 ](/kjv/leviticus/17/16) But if he wash *them* not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.
 
[Leviticus 16](/kjv/leviticus/16) [Leviticus 18](/kjv/leviticus/18)

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