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

and it shall be a law forever among your generations after you in your dwelling places: that ye eat neither fat nor blood."'

Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, wheresoever ye dwell, whether it be of fowl or of beast.

And whatsoever man it be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that eateth any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will destroy him from among his people,

"'Ye shall eat nothing with the blood, ye shall use no witchcraft, nor observe dismal days.

only eat not the blood, but pour it upon the earth as water.

Ye shall eat of nothing that dieth alone: But thou mayest give it unto the stranger that is in thy city that he eat it, or mayest sell it unto an Alien. For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Only eat not the blood thereof, but pour it upon the ground as water.

and go abroad among the people and bid them bring every man his ox and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood." And the people brought every man his ox in his hand by night and slew them there.

but that we write unto them, that they abstain themselves from filthiness of images, from fornication, from strangled, and from blood.

For all the creatures of God are good: and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

General references

For the life of all flesh is in the blood, therefore I said unto the children of Israel: Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh, for the life of all flesh is in his blood, and whosoever therefore eateth it shall perish.

only eat not the blood, but pour it upon the earth as water.