Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
Genesis 9:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, 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. 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 tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
*'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
*'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'*
You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul,
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.*
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.