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Genesis 9:4

except that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

In Context

3And everything that moves and lives will be food for you. Just as with the edible plants, I have delivered them all to you,

5For I will examine the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast. So also, at the hand of mankind, at the hand of each man and his brother, I will examine the life of mankind.

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Cross References

Leviticus 3:17by a perpetual law, in your generations and in all of your habitations, neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.

Leviticus 17:10Any man at all of the house of Israel, or of the newcomers who sojourn among them, if he has eaten blood, I will harden my face against his soul, and I will drive him from his people.

Deuteronomy 12:16Only the blood you shall not eat. Instead, you shall pour it upon the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 14:21But whatever has died of itself, you shall not eat from it. Give it to the sojourner, who is within your gates, so that he may eat, or sell it to him. For you are the holy people of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of his mother.

1 Samuel 14:33Then they reported to Saul, saying that the people had sinned against the Lord, eating with blood. And he said: “You have transgressed. Roll a great stone to me, here and now.”

Ezekiel 33:25Therefore, you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You who eat even the blood, and who lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and who shed blood: will you possess the land as an inheritance?

Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:2-8

Blessing of Noah and His Sons. ( b. c. 2348.) 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 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. 4 But flesh with the life… Read the whole commentary →

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