Genesis 9:4 “But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.”

Genesis 9:4

But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

But flesh with the life thereof, I meane, with the blood thereof, shall ye not eate.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“the life”

Deuteronomy 12:23 Deuteronomy 12:16 Deuteronomy 15:23 Acts 15:20 Leviticus 7:26 Leviticus 17:10–14

Deuteronomy 12:23 · BSB

Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

Deuteronomy 12:16 · BSB

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

Deuteronomy 15:23 · BSB

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

Acts 15:20 · BSB

Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

Leviticus 7:26 · BSB

You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.

Leviticus 17:10–14 · BSB

If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.

Also

1 Samuel 14:33–34

1 Samuel 14:33–34 · BSB

Then someone reported to Saul: “Look, the troops are sinning against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.” “You have broken faith,” said Saul. “Roll a large stone over here at once.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

5And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

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