This is what Yãhweh has commanded, saying, 3 “Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, or a lamb, or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp¹, 4 and has not brought it to the doorway of the tent of meeting² to present it as an offering to Yãhweh before the tabernacle³ of Yãhweh, bloodguiltiness is to be reckoned to that man. He has shed blood and that man shall be cut off from among his people.ª

 

(MISB: Lev. 17:3-4): http://www.torahtimes.org/NewTranslation/BasicBooks/leviticus.html#17:3

(Link to MISB: http://www.torahtimes.org/NewTranslation/bibleframe.html)

 

 1. In the latter days the “camp” is Israel and “outside the camp” is beyond the border of Israel in the nations.

 

 2. In the latter days, the “tent of meeting” became the Temple. That is the tent of meeting was replaced by the Temple. The intent of the legislation remains valid.

 

 3. i.e. the Temple

 

 4. Does a journey away from Israel or exile suspend this commandment for the sons of Israel? Numbers 9:10, 13 show that offering Passover away from the Sanctuary was not allowed, otherwise the journey would not have been an issue. Deut. 16:5-6 repeats the prohibition. Deut. 12:13-16 repeats the ban and allows only slaughtering for common food. Hosea 3:4-5 says Israel will bear the punishment of their iniquity without sacrifice (cf. Lev 26:43). Jewish example suggests not. The Limitation to Levites of sacrificial service says no (Num. 18:23); they will bear the iniquity of mistakes, and Levites are not available in the exile. Joshua 22:10-12 show that building any competing altar is a cause for war. The only place of sacrifice is the one place Yahweh chooses to put His name, and that is Jerusalem (1Ki 8:16). The Samaritans presumed to sacrifice on their own, but Yeshua rejected their worship, saying they worshiped, “that which you do not know” (John 4:22), and their worship was a thorn in the side of Judah.