Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
But flesh with the life of it, [which is] the blood of it, ye shall not eat.
New American Standard Bible
Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is,
King James Version
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Holman Bible
However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.
International Standard Version
However, you are not to eat meat with its life that is, its blood in it!
American Standard Version
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Amplified
But you shall not eat meat along with its life, that is, its blood.
Bible in Basic English
But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
Darby Translation
Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.
Julia Smith Translation
But the flesh with its breath, its blood ye shall not eat
King James 2000
But flesh with its life, which is its blood, shall you not eat.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
Modern King James verseion
But you shall not eat of flesh with the life in it, or the blood of it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Only: the flesh with his life, which is his blood, see that ye eat not.
NET Bible
But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.
New Heart English Bible
But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
The Emphasized Bible
Yet flesh with the life thereof, the bleed thereof, shall ye not eat;
Webster
But flesh with the life of it, which is its blood, shall ye not eat.
World English Bible
But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
Youngs Literal Translation
only flesh in its life -- its blood -- ye do not eat.
Themes
Beasts » Not to be eaten alive or with blood
Blood » Forbidden to be used as food
Blood » Eating of, forbidden to » Man after the flood
Covenant » Of God with men » Everlasting
Food » Kinds prohibited by mosaic law
Topics
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 9:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Covenant With Noah
3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. As the green herb, I have given you all. 4 But flesh with the life of it, [which is] the blood of it, ye shall not eat. 5 And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, I will require. At the hand of every beast I will require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eat the blood. Thou shall pour it out upon the ground as water.
Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be sure that thou not eat the blood. For the blood is the life, and thou shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Acts 15:20
but to write to them, to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:29
to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, keeping yourselves from which, ye will do well. Be strong.
Leviticus 17:10-14
And whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who eats any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 3:17
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 7:26
And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of bird or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 19:26
Ye shall not eat anything with the blood. Neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practice augury.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only thou shall not eat the blood of it. Thou shall pour it out upon the ground as water.
Deuteronomy 14:21
Ye shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. Thou may give it to the sojourner who is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or thou may sell it to a foreigner, for thou are a holy people to LORD thy God. Thou shall not boil a
1 Samuel 14:33-34
Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, ye have dealt treacherously. Roll a great stone to me this day.
Acts 15:25
it was decided by us, having become unanimous, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
1 Timothy 4:4
Because every creation of God is good, and nothing rejected that is received with thankfulness,