Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: You eat flesh with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?
Genesis 9:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But you shall not eat flesh with the life of it, which is its blood. American Standard Version (1901) But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. Common English Bible However, you must not eat meat with its life, its blood, in it. Catholic Public Domain Version except that flesh with blood you shall not eat. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat. |
Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: You eat flesh with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?
“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”
Moreover you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood.
it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water.
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood; for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a people holy to the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;
the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.