Genesis 9:4
But do not eat meat with the lifeblood still in it.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
In Context
3Every living creature that moves will be food for you, as well as all the green plants.
Cross References
Leviticus 3:17You must not eat any fat or any blood. This regulation is for all time and for all future generations everywhere you live.”
Leviticus 17:10I will disown any Israelite or any foreigner living among them who eats any blood and I will expel them from their people.
Deuteronomy 12:16but you are not to eat the blood—pour that out on the ground.
Deuteronomy 14:21You must not eat any animal that dies. You can give it to a foreigner in your town, and they can eat it, or you can sell it to a foreigner. You, however, are a holy people who belong to the Lord your God. Don't cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
1 Samuel 14:33Saul was told, “Look, the men are sinning against the Lord by eating meat with the blood.” “Law-breakers!” said Saul. “Roll a large stone over here right now!”
Ezekiel 33:25So tell them that this is what the Lord God says: You eat meat with the blood still in it. You go and worship your idols. You commit murder. Do you really think the country should belong to you?
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 →