Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, 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!
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.
Bible in Basic English
But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
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 liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything. 4 Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat. 5 And indeed your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require: at the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of Man, at the hand of each the blood of his brother, will I require the life of Man.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only, ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Deuteronomy 12:23
Only, be sure that thou eat not the blood; for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh;
Acts 15:20
but to write to them to abstain from 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 what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.
Leviticus 17:10-14
And every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood, I will set my face against the soul that hath eaten blood, and will cut him off from among his people;
Leviticus 3:17
It is an everlasting statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings: no fat and no blood shall ye eat.
Leviticus 7:26
And no blood shall ye eat in any of your dwellings, whether it be of fowl or of cattle.
Leviticus 19:26
Ye shall eat nothing with the blood. Ye shall not practise enchantment, nor use auguries.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof: thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
Deuteronomy 14:21
Ye shall eat of no carcase; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or sell it unto a foreigner; for thou art a holy people to Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
1 Samuel 14:33-34
And they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Jehovah, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have acted perversely: roll me now a great stone.
Acts 15:25
it seemed good to us, having arrived at a common judgment, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;