Genesis 9:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.”
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BSBPD
“But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“only flesh in its life--its blood--ye do not eat.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Genesis 9:4 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 3:17This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
- Leviticus 7:26You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.
- Leviticus 17:10If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.
- Leviticus 19:26You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
- Deuteronomy 12:16but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- Deuteronomy 12:23Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
- Deuteronomy 14:21You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Deuteronomy 15:23But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- 1 Samuel 14:33Then someone reported to Saul: “Look, the troops are sinning against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.” “You have broken faith,” said Saul. “Roll a large stone over here at once.”
- 1 Samuel 14:34Then he said, “Go among the troops and tell them, ‘Each man must bring me his ox or his sheep, slaughter them in this place, and then eat. Do not sin against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.’” So that night everyone brought his ox and slaughtered it there.
- Ezekiel 33:25Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?
- Acts 15:20Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
- Acts 15:25So we all agreed to choose men to send to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
- Acts 15:29You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
- 1 Timothy 4:4For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
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