Therefore, you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You who eat even the blood, and who lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and who shed blood: will you possess the land as an inheritance?
Genesis 9:4 - Catholic Public Domain Version except that flesh with blood you shall not eat. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But you shall not eat flesh with the life of it, which is its blood. American Standard Version (1901) But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. Common English Bible However, you must not eat meat with its life, its blood, in it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat. English Standard Version 2016 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. |
Therefore, you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You who eat even the blood, and who lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and who shed blood: will you possess the land as an inheritance?
You shall not eat with blood. You shall not practice divination, nor the observation of dreams.
by a perpetual law, in your generations and in all of your habitations, neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.
Likewise, you shall not take as food the blood of any animals at all, whether of birds or beasts.
but instead that we write to them, that they should keep themselves from the defilement of idols, and from fornication, and from whatever has been suffocated, and from blood.
it pleased us, being assembled as one, to choose men and to send them to you, with our most beloved Barnabas and Paul:
that you abstain from things immolated to idols, and from blood, and from what has been suffocated, and from fornication. You will do well to keep yourselves from these things. Farewell."
Only the blood you shall not eat. Instead, you shall pour it upon the ground like water.
Only beware of this: you may not eat the blood. For their blood is for the soul. And because of this, you must not eat the soul with the flesh.
But whatever has died of itself, you shall not eat from it. Give it to the sojourner, who is within your gates, so that he may eat, or sell it to him. For you are the holy people of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of his mother.
This alone shall you observe: that you do not eat their blood, but pour it upon the ground like water."
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected which is received with thanksgiving;
And turning to the spoils, they took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and they slew them on the ground. And the people ate with blood.