Genesis 9:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Only meat with its lifeblood still in it you shall not eat.

Cross References

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You eat on the mountains, you raise your eyes to your idols, you shed blood—yet you would keep possession of the land?

Leviticus 19:26

Do not eat anything with the blood still in it. Do not recite charms or practice soothsaying.

Leviticus 3:17

This shall be a perpetual ordinance for your descendants wherever they may dwell. You shall not eat any fat or any blood.

Leviticus 7:26

Wherever you dwell, you shall not eat any blood, whether of bird or of animal.

Acts 15:20

but tell them by letter to avoid pollution from idols, unlawful marriage, the meat of strangled animals, and blood.

Acts 15:25

we have with one accord decided to choose representatives and to send them to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Acts 15:29

namely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage. If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell.’” Delegates at Antioch.

Deuteronomy 12:16

Only, you shall not eat of the blood, but must pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

But make sure that you do not eat of the blood; for blood is life; you shall not eat that life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 14:21

You shall not eat the carcass of any animal that has died of itself; but you may give it to a resident alien within your gates to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. Tithes.

Deuteronomy 15:23

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

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected when received with thanksgiving,

1 Samuel 14:32

So the army pounced upon the plunder and took sheep, oxen, and calves, slaughtering them on the ground and eating the meat with the blood in it.