Therefore say to them, “This is what the Lord God says: You eat meat with blood in it, you look to your idols, and you shed blood. Should you then receive possession of the land?
Genesis 9:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it. 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. Catholic Public Domain Version except that flesh with blood you shall not eat. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat. |
Therefore say to them, “This is what the Lord God says: You eat meat with blood in it, you look to your idols, and you shed blood. Should you then receive possession of the land?
‘You are not to eat anything with blood in it. , You are not to practise divination or witchcraft.
This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood.’
but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.
we have unanimously decided to select men and send them to you along with our dearly loved Barnabas and Paul,
that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things. Farewell.’
But don’t eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
‘You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a resident foreigner within your city gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
they rushed to the plunder, took sheep, goats, cattle, and calves, slaughtered them on the ground, and ate meat with the blood still in it.