Genesis 9:4

Good News Translation

The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it; I forbid this because the life is in the blood.

Cross References

Ezekiel 33:25

“Tell them what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying: You eat meat with the blood still in it. You worship idols. You commit murder. What makes you think that the land belongs to you?

Leviticus 19:26

“Do not eat any meat with blood still in it. Do not practice any kind of magic.

Leviticus 3:17

No Israelite may eat any fat or any blood; this is a rule to be kept forever by all Israelites wherever they live.

Leviticus 7:26

No matter where the Israelites live, they must never use the blood of birds or animals for food.

Acts 15:20

Instead, we should write a letter telling them not to eat any food that is ritually unclean because it has been offered to idols; to keep themselves from sexual immorality; and not to eat any animal that has been strangled, or any blood.

Acts 15:25

And so we have met together and have all agreed to choose some messengers and send them to you. They will go with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,

Acts 15:29

eat no food that has been offered to idols; eat no blood; eat no animal that has been strangled; and keep yourselves from sexual immorality. You will do well if you take care not to do these things. With our best wishes.”

Deuteronomy 12:16

But you must not eat their blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

Only do not eat meat with blood still in it, for the life is in the blood, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

Deuteronomy 14:21

“Do not eat any animal that dies a natural death. You may let the foreigners who live among you eat it, or you may sell it to other foreigners. But you belong to the Lord your God; you are his people. “Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk.

Deuteronomy 15:23

But do not use their blood for food; instead, you must pour it out on the ground like water.

1 Timothy 4:4

Everything that God has created is good; nothing is to be rejected, but everything is to be received with a prayer of thanks,

1 Samuel 14:32

and so they rushed over to what they had captured from the enemy, took sheep and cattle, slaughtered them on the spot, and ate the meat with the blood still in it.