“And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:”
Instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord in front of the tabernacle of the Lord — that person shall be considered guilty of bloodshed; they have shed blood and must be cut off from their people. The requirement to bring the animals to the tabernacle for slaughter is grounded in the bloodshed principle: unauthorized slaughter of the covenant animals is treated as the shedding of blood. The cut off penalty for unauthorized animal slaughter communicates the gravity of the violation: the community's food animals are so deeply integrated into the sacrificial system that their slaughter outside the sacrificial context is treated as a form of murder.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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