Genesis 9:4 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴ “But do not eat flesh with its life, 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 said the Master יהוה, “You eat meat with blood, and you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

Leviticus 19:26

‘Do not eat meat with the blood. Do not practise divination or magic.

Leviticus 3:17

‘An everlasting law throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you do not eat any fat or any blood.’ ”

Leviticus 7:26

‘And do not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, of bird or of beast.

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from the defilements of idols, and from whoring, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15:25

it seemed good to us, having become of one mind, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnaḇa and Sha’ul,

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from what is offered to idols, and blood, and what is strangled, and whoring. If you keep yourselves from these, you shall do well. Be strong!

Deuteronomy 12:16

“Only, the blood you do not eat, pour it on the earth like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

“Only, be strong not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, do not eat the life with the meat.

Deuteronomy 14:21

“Do not eat whatever dies of itself. Give it to the stranger who is within your gates, to eat it, or sell it to a foreigner. For you are a set-apart people to יהוה your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 15:23

“Only, do not eat its blood, pour it on the ground like water.

1 Timothy 4:4

Because every creature of Elohim is good, and none is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

1 Samuel 14:32

and the people pounced on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle, and calves, and slew them on the ground. And the people ate with the blood.