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Chapter 17 gives instructions on how an animal should be slaughtered. Any ox, lamb or goat that was killed in or out of the camp had to be brought to the door of the Tabernacle and offered as a gift to the Lord. The blood would then be sprinkled on the Altar and the fatty portions burnt as an offering.
This was a change from the way that things had been done in the past. People, prior to this, were allowed to build their own altars and offer sacrifices wherever they pleased. Abraham built an altar wherever he pitched his tent. Job was a priest in his family and offered sacrifices on his own altar whenever he pleased. This gave way to idolatry. They ran out of gods to make sacrifices to so they invented some. Satan had been causing this since Adam and Eve. This statute was applied also to strangers and sojourners in the land.
Then the Lord established that blood would be the instrument of atonement, therefore, no one should eat it for blood gives life to the flesh. Anyone who does shall be cut off from the people.
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