Genesis 9:4

New American Standard Bible 2020

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

Cross References

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “You eat meat with the blood in it, raise your eyes to your idols as you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

Leviticus 19:26

‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood. You shall not practice divination nor soothsaying.

Leviticus 3:17

It is a permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’ ”

Leviticus 7:26

And you are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols, from acts of sexual immorality, from what has been strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15:25

it seemed good to us, having become of one mind, to select men to send to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from acts of sexual immorality; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”

Deuteronomy 12:16

Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 14:21

“You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the stranger who is in your town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a stranger; 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 shall not eat its blood; you are to 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 if it is received with gratitude;

1 Samuel 14:32

So the people loudly rushed upon the spoils, and took sheep, oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.