Imamat 17:12-13

17:12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, ¹  and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood. ² 

17:13 “‘Any man from the Israelites ³  or from the foreigners who reside ⁴  in their ⁵  midst who hunts a wild animal ⁶  or a bird that may be eaten ⁷  must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,

[17:12]  ¹ tn Heb “all/any person from you shall not eat blood.”

[17:12]  ² tn Heb “and the sojourner, the one sojourning in your midst, shall not eat blood.”

[17:13]  ³ tc A few medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, and Tg. Ps.-J. have “from the house of Israel” as in vv. 3, 8, and 10, but the LXX agrees with the MT.

[17:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the sojourner who sojourns.”

[17:13]  ⁵ tc The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and certain mss of Smr have “your” (plural) rather than “their” (cf. v. 10 above).

[17:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “[wild] game of animal.”

[17:13]  ⁷ tn That is, it must be a clean animal, not an unclean animal (cf. Lev 11).