Therefore say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
Genesis 9:4 - King James 2000 But flesh with its life, which is its blood, shall you 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 say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
You shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall you use divination, nor witchcraft.
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood.
Moreover you shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from defilements of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
That you abstain from anything offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Farewell.
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.
You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it unto the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it unto a foreigner: for you are a holy people unto the LORD your God. you shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
And the people rushed upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.