Genesis 9:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

Leviticus 19:26

Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury.

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.

Leviticus 7:26

And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

Acts 15:20

but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15:25

it seemed good unto us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Acts 15:29

that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

Deuteronomy 12:16

Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 14:21

Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:

1 Samuel 14:32

and the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.