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without first bringing it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord in front of the Lord’s tabernacle, shall be judged guilty of bloodshed[a](A)—that individual has shed blood, and shall be cut off(B) from the people.

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Footnotes

  1. 17:4 Guilty of bloodshed: human beings and animals can incur blood guilt for killing human beings (cf. Gn 9:5–6); human beings can incur blood guilt for killing animals (see note on Lv 24:17–22).

instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting(A) to present it as an offering to the Lord in front of the tabernacle of the Lord(B)—that person shall be considered guilty of bloodshed; they have shed blood and must be cut off from their people.(C)

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