Genesis 9:4

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: You eat meat with the blood in it and lift up your eyes toward your idols as you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

Leviticus 19:26

You shall not eat anything with the blood in it, nor shall you practice divination or fortune-telling.

Leviticus 3:17

As a continual statute for your generations in all your settlements, you shall not eat any fat or any blood.

Leviticus 7:26

Moreover you shall not eat any manner of blood, whether from a fowl or animal, in any of your dwellings.

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood.

Acts 15:25

it seemed good to us, being assembled in unity, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Acts 15:29

Abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

Deuteronomy 12:16

only you must not eat the blood. You shall pour it 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 may not eat the life with the meat.

Deuteronomy 14:21

You must not eat of anything that dies of itself, but you may give it to the foreigner that is in your gates, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 15:23

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

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything created by God is good, and not to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving,

1 Samuel 14:32

The people rushed upon the spoil; they took sheep, oxen, and calves and slew them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood.