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Bible in Basic English

But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

New American Standard Bible

Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

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!

A Conservative Version

But flesh with the life of it, [which is] the blood of it, ye shall not eat.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּשׂר 
Basar 
Usage: 270

with the life
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

thereof, which is the blood
דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

References

Context Readings

God's Covenant With Noah

3 Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things. 4 But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food. 5 And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:16

But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

Acts 15:20

But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

Acts 15:29

To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

Leviticus 17:10-14

And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 3:17

Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.

Leviticus 7:26

And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.

Leviticus 19:26

Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

Deuteronomy 14:21

You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

1 Samuel 14:33-34

Then it was said to Saul, See, the people are sinning against the Lord, taking the blood with the flesh. And he said to those who gave him the news, Now let a great stone be rolled to me here.

Acts 15:25

It seemed good to us, having come to an agreement together, to send these men to you, with our well loved Barnabas and Paul,

1 Timothy 4:4

Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:

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