Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
But the flesh with its breath, 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.
Darby Translation
Only, the flesh with its life, 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
Interlinear
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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 creeping thing which it lives shall be food to you as the green herb. I gave you all things. 4 But the flesh with its breath, its blood ye shall not eat 5 And surely, your blood of your lives I will search out, from the hand of every living thing I will search it out, and from the hand of man; from the hand of a man's brother I will search out the life of man.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only the blood thou shalt not eat: upon the earth ye shall pour it as water.
Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be striving not to eat the blood, for the blood it is the soul; and thou. shalt not eat the soul with the flesh.
Acts 15:20
But to send to them, to keep off from pollutions of images, and harlotry, and strangulation, and blood.
Acts 15:29
To keep off from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and strangulation, and harlotry: from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Leviticus 17:10-14
And a man, a man from the house of Israel, and from the stranger sojourning in the midst of you, who shall eat any blood; and I gave my face against the soul eating the blood, and I cut it off from the midst of its people.
Leviticus 3:17
A law forever to your generations in all your dwellings, all the fat and all the blood, ye shall not eat
Leviticus 7:26
And any blood ye shall not eat in any of your dwellings, of fowl, and of cattle.
Leviticus 19:26
Ye shall not eat with the blood: ye shall not take auguries, and ye shall not practise magic.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only its blood thou shalt not eat: upon the earth shalt thou pour it as water.
Deuteronomy 14:21
Ye shall not eat any carcass: to the stranger that is in thy gates ye shall give it, and he shall eat it; or sell it to a foreigner: for thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk.
1 Samuel 14:33-34
And they will announce to Saul, saying, Behold, the people sinning against Jehovah to eat upon the blood. And he will say, Ye acted treacherously: roll to me this day a great stone.
Acts 15:25
It seemed fitting to us, having been unanimous, to send to you chosen men with our dearly beloved Barnabas and Paul,
1 Timothy 4:4
For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks: