Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
But you shall not eat of flesh with the life in it, or the blood of it.
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
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 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
'ak
Basar
Nephesh
Dam
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. I have given you all things, even as the green herb. 4 But you shall not eat of flesh with the life in it, or the blood of it. 5 and surely 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 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 on the earth like water.
Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be sure that you do not eat 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 to them that they should abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:29
that you abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which, if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Be prospered.
Leviticus 17:10-14
And any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that are staying among you, who eats any 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 statute forever for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 7:26
And you shall not eat any blood, of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 19:26
You shall not eat anything with the blood. You shall not divine, nor conjure spirits.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only you shall not eat the blood of it. You shall pour it on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 14:21
You shall not eat anything that dies of itself. You shall give it to the stranger that is in your gates, so that he may eat it. Or you may sell it to a stranger. For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. You shall 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, You have transgressed. Roll a great stone to me today.
Acts 15:25
it seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
1 Timothy 4:4
For every creation of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving.