📜WEB · Leviticus 17:16
What does Leviticus 17:16 mean?
"But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’”"
— Leviticus 17:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.
For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”
“‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.
But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’”
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