KJV King James Version
But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
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Genesis 9:4
But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
WEB World English Bible
But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
ASV American Standard Version
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
only flesh in its life—its blood—ye do not eat.
Surrounding context — Genesis 9
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
4 But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
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Deuteronomy 12:23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.Deuteronomy 15:23Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.Deuteronomy 12:16Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.Acts 15:20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.Leviticus 7:26Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, [whether it be] of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.Leviticus 17:10-14And whatsoever man [there be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.Acts 15:29That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.Leviticus 3:17[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.Leviticus 19:26Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.1 Timothy 4:4For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:1 Samuel 14:33-34Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.Acts 15:25It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,Deuteronomy 14:21Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
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