Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.

New American Standard Bible

Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

King James Version

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

International Standard Version

However, you are not to eat meat with its life that is, its blood in it!

A Conservative Version

But flesh with the life of it, [which is] the blood of it, ye shall not eat.

American Standard Version

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Amplified

But you shall not eat meat along with its life, that is, its blood.

Bible in Basic English

But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

Darby Translation

Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.

Julia Smith Translation

But the flesh with its breath, its blood ye shall not eat

King James 2000

But flesh with its life, which is its blood, shall you not eat.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.

Modern King James verseion

But you shall not eat of flesh with the life in it, or the blood of it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Only: the flesh with his life, which is his blood, see that ye eat not.

NET Bible

But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.

New Heart English Bible

But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

The Emphasized Bible

Yet flesh with the life thereof, the bleed thereof, shall ye not eat;

Webster

But flesh with the life of it, which is its blood, shall ye not eat.

World English Bible

But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

Youngs Literal Translation

only flesh in its life -- its blood -- ye do not eat.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּשׂר 
Basar 
Usage: 270

with the life
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

thereof, which is the blood
דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

References

Context Readings

God's Covenant With Noah

3 Every living creature will be food for you; as I gave the green plants, I have given you everything. 4 However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it. 5 I will require the life of every animal and every man for your life and your blood. I will require the life of each man’s brother for a man’s life.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:16

but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

But don’t eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

Acts 15:20

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.

Acts 15:29

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.

Leviticus 17:10-14

“Anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who live among them who eats any blood, I will turn against that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people.

Leviticus 3:17

This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”

Leviticus 7:26

Wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.

Leviticus 19:26

“You are not to eat anything with blood in it. You are not to practice divination or sorcery.

Deuteronomy 15:23

But you must not eat its blood; pour it on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 14:21

“You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a temporary resident living within your 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. You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

1 Samuel 14:33-34

Some reported to Saul: “Look, the troops are sinning against the Lord by eating meat with the blood still in it.”

Saul said, “You have been unfaithful. Roll a large stone over here at once.”

Acts 15:25

we have unanimously decided to select men and send them to you along with our dearly loved Barnabas and Paul,

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything created by God is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

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