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

It shall be a statute forever for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood.

And you shall not eat any blood, of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

And any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that are staying among you, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

You shall not eat anything with the blood. You shall not divine, nor conjure spirits.

Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the earth like water.

You shall not eat anything that dies of itself. You shall give it to the stranger that is in your gates, so that he may eat it. Or you may sell it to a stranger. For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

Only you shall not eat the blood of it. You shall pour it on the ground like water.

And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, Let each one bring his ox here, and each man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat. And do not sin against Jehovah in eating with the blood. And each man of all the people brought his ox in his hand that night, and killed them there.

but that we write to them that they should abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

For every creation of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving.

General references

For it is the life of all flesh. Its blood is for the life of it. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh. For the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the earth like water.