Genesis 9:4 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

⁴ Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ But you shall not eat flesh with the life of it, which is its blood.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Common English Bible

⁴ However, you must not eat meat with its life, its blood, in it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ except that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

Genesis 9:4 Cross References

Ezekiel 33:25

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?

Leviticus 19:26

You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.

Leviticus 7:26

You must not eat any blood whatever, either of bird or of animal, in any of your settlements.

Acts 15:20

but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.

Acts 15:25

we have decided unanimously to choose representatives and send them to you, along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Deuteronomy 12:16

The blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

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 meat.

Deuteronomy 14:21

You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to aliens residing in your towns for them to eat, 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.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Its blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving;

1 Samuel 14:32

so the troops flew upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the troops ate them with the blood.