Genesis 9:4

Tree of Life Version

Only flesh with its life—that is, its blood—you must not eat!

Cross References

Ezekiel 33:25

“Therefore say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘You eat with the blood, lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood. Should you possess the land?

Leviticus 19:26

“You are not to eat any meat with the blood still in it, nor are you to use enchantments, or practice sorcery.

Leviticus 3:17

“It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you must eat neither fat nor blood.”

Leviticus 7:26

“You are not to eat any blood, whether it is from a bird or an animal, in any of your dwellings.

Acts 15:20

but to write to them to abstain from the contamination of idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15:25

it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to select men to send to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul—

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. By keeping away from these things, you will do well. Shalom!”

Deuteronomy 12:16

But you are not to eat the blood—you are to pour it out 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 are not to eat the life with the meat.

Deuteronomy 14:21

You are not to eat anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the outsider within your gates so that he may eat it or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people to Adonai your God. You are not to boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only its blood you are not to eat—you must 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 thanksgiving;

1 Samuel 14:32

Then the people rushed greedily upon the plunder, took sheep, oxen and calves, butchered them on the ground, and the people ate them with the blood.