Imamat 17:13

17:13 “‘Any man from the Israelites ¹  or from the foreigners who reside ²  in their ³  midst who hunts a wild animal ⁴  or a bird that may be eaten ⁵  must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,

Imamat 17:15

Regulations for Eating Carcasses

17:15 “‘Any person ⁶  who eats an animal that has died of natural causes ⁷  or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a foreigner, ⁸  must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.

[17:13]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “from the sojourner who sojourns.”

[17:13]  ³ tc The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and certain mss of Smr have “your” (plural) rather than “their” (cf. v. 10 above).

[17:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “[wild] game of animal.”

[17:13]  ⁵ tn That is, it must be a clean animal, not an unclean animal (cf. Lev 11).

[17:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “And any soul” (נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh).

[17:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “carcass,” referring to the carcass of an animal that has died on its own, not the carcass of an animal slaughtered for sacrifice or killed by wild beasts. This has been clarified in the translation by supplying the phrase “of natural causes”; cf. NAB “that died of itself”; TEV “that has died a natural death.”

[17:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the native or in the sojourner.”