Parallel Verses
Amplified
But you shall not eat meat along with its life, that is, its blood.
New American Standard Bible
Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is,
King James Version
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Holman Bible
However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.
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.
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.
Themes
Beasts » Not to be eaten alive or with blood
Blood » Forbidden to be used as food
Blood » Eating of, forbidden to » Man after the flood
Covenant » Of God with men » Everlasting
Food » Kinds prohibited by mosaic law
Topics
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 9:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Covenant With Noah
3
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; I give you everything, as I gave you the green plants and vegetables.
4 But you shall not eat meat along with its life, that is, its blood.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life (soul), and you shall not eat the life with the meat.
Acts 15:20
but that we write to them that they are to abstain from
Acts 15:29
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from [consuming] blood, and from [eating the meat of] things that have been strangled, and from sexual impurity. If you keep yourselves from these things, you will do well. Farewell.”
Leviticus 17:10-14
‘Any man from the house of Israel, or any stranger living temporarily among you, who eats any blood, against that person I shall set My face and I will cut him off from his people [excluding him from the atonement made for them].
Leviticus 3:17
It is a permanent statute for your generations wherever you may be, that you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’”
Leviticus 7:26
Moreover, you are not to eat any blood [of any kind], whether of bird or animal, in any of your dwelling places.
Leviticus 19:26
‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination [using omens or witchcraft] or soothsaying.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only you shall not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 14:21
“You shall not eat anything that dies on its own. You may give it to the stranger (resident alien, foreigner) who is in your [city] gates, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner [since they are not under God’s law], but you are a people holy (set apart) to the Lord your God. You shall not
1 Samuel 14:33-34
Then Saul was told, “Look, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating [the meat] with the blood.” And he said, “You have violated [the Law] and acted treacherously; roll a large stone to me today.”
Acts 15:25
it has been decided by us, having met together, to select men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
1 Timothy 4:4
For everything God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;