Genesis 9:4
only flesh in its life—its blood—you do not eat.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 3:17[This is] a continuous statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you do not eat any fat or any blood.”
Leviticus 17:10And any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners who is sojourning in your midst, who eats any blood, I have even set My face against the person who is eating the blood, and have cut him off from the midst of his people;
Deuteronomy 12:16Only, you do not eat the blood—you pour it on the earth as water;
Deuteronomy 14:21You do not eat of any carcass; you give it to the sojourner who [is] within your gates, and he has eaten it; or sell [it] to a stranger; for you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH. You do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
1 Samuel 14:33And they declare to Saul, saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against YHWH, to eat with the blood.” And he says, “You have dealt treacherously, roll a great stone to me today.”
Ezekiel 33:25Therefore say to them, Thus said Lord YHWH: You eat with the blood, || And you lift up your eyes to your idols, || And you shed blood, || Should you then inherit the land?
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 →