Parallel Verses

NET Bible

But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.

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.

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 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.

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 You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. 4 But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it. 5 For your lifeblood I will surely exact punishment, from every living creature I will exact punishment. From each person I will exact punishment for the life of the individual since the man was his relative.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:16

However, you must not eat blood -- pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself -- you must not eat the life with the meat!

Acts 15:20

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.

Leviticus 17:10-14

"'Any man from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside in their midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people,

Leviticus 3:17

This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.'"

Leviticus 7:26

And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.

Leviticus 19:26

"'You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.

Deuteronomy 15:23

However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 14:21

You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

1 Samuel 14:33-34

Now it was reported to Saul, "Look, the army is sinning against the Lord by eating even the blood." He said, "All of you have broken the covenant! Roll a large stone over here to me."

Acts 15:25

we have unanimously decided to choose men to send to you along with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.

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