Genesis 9:4

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Genesis 9:4

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

The life

General references

Leviticus 17:14

Deuteronomy 12:16

Bible References

The life

It is an everlasting statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings: no fat and no blood shall ye eat.

And no blood shall ye eat in any of your dwellings, whether it be of fowl or of cattle.

And every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood, I will set my face against the soul that hath eaten blood, and will cut him off from among his people;

Ye shall eat nothing with the blood. Ye shall not practise enchantment, nor use auguries.

Only, ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

Ye shall eat of no carcase; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or sell it unto a foreigner; for thou art a holy people to Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof: thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say to them, Bring near to me every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slaughter them here, and eat; and sin not against Jehovah in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slaughtered them there.

but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;

General references

for as to the life of all flesh, its blood is the life in it; and I have said unto the children of Israel, Of the blood of no manner of flesh shall ye eat, for the life of all flesh is its blood: whoever eateth it shall be cut off.

Only, ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.