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Genesis 9:4

The law

2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye 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.

6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
KJV
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
WEB
But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
ASV
But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
DARBY
Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.
BLB
But flesh with its life—its blood—you⁺ shall not eat.
ÅB
Men kjøtt med dets sjel i, det er dets blod, skal dere ikke spise.
OTB
Men kjøtt med dets livsblod i seg skal dere ikke spise.
B1930
Men kjøtt med dets sjel i, det er dets blod, skal I ikke ete.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 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.

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  • Deuteronomy 12:16

    Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

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  • Deuteronomy 15:23

    Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

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  • Acts 15:20

    But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

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  • Leviticus 7:26

    Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

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  • Leviticus 17:10–14

    And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

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  • Acts 15:29

    That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

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  • Leviticus 3:17

    It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

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