Parallel Verses
King James 2000
But flesh with its life, which is its blood, shall you 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.
Julia Smith Translation
But the flesh with its breath, its blood ye shall 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 moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as the green plants have I given you all things. 4 But flesh with its life, which is its blood, shall you not eat. 5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.
Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from defilements of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:29
That you abstain from anything offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Farewell.
Leviticus 17:10-14
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eats any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 3:17
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 7:26
Moreover you shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 19:26
You shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall you use divination, nor witchcraft.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.
Deuteronomy 14:21
You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it unto the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it unto a foreigner: for you are a holy people unto the LORD your God. you shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
1 Samuel 14:33-34
Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, you have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
Acts 15:25
It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: