Genesis 9:4

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Summary

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

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

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

“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.

“You are not to eat anything with blood in it.

You are not to practice divination or sorcery.

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

“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.

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

He then said, “Go among the troops and say to them, ‘Each man must bring me his ox or his sheep. Do the slaughtering here and then you can eat. Don’t sin against the Lord by eating meat with the blood in it.’” So every one of the troops brought his ox that night and slaughtered it there.

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.

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

General references

Since the life of every creature is its blood, I have told the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.

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