Genesis 9:4

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

Cross References

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: You eat meat with the blood [as an idolatrous rite] and lift up your eyes to your [filthy] idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land? [Gen. 9:4; Lev. 3:17; 7:27; Acts 15:28, 29.]

Leviticus 19:26

You shall not eat anything with the blood; neither shall you use magic, omens, or witchcraft [or predict events by horoscope or signs and lucky days].

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.

Leviticus 7:26

Moreover, you shall eat no blood of any kind, whether of bird or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

Acts 15:20

But we should send word to them in writing to abstain from and avoid anything that has been polluted by being offered to idols, and all sexual impurity, and [eating meat of animals] that have been strangled, and [tasting of] blood.

Acts 15:25

It has been resolved by us in assembly to select men and send them [as messengers] to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Acts 15:29

That you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from [tasting] blood and from [eating the meat of animals] that have been strangled and from sexual impurity. If you keep yourselves from these things, you will do well. Farewell [be strong]!

Deuteronomy 12:16

Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you may not eat the life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 14:21

You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the stranger or the foreigner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to an alien. [They are not under God's law in this matter] but you are a people holy to the Lord your God. You shall not [even] boil a kid in its mother's milk.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water.

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything God has created is good, and nothing is to be thrown away or refused if it is received with thanksgiving.

1 Samuel 14:32

[When night came and the oath expired] the men flew upon the spoil. They took sheep, oxen, and calves, slew them on the ground, and ate them [raw] with the blood.