Genesis 9:4

But the flesh with its life-blood you shall not eat.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3Every moving thing that liveth, for you it shall be to eat; as the green herb I have given you the whole.

5And also your blood of your lives will I require, from every beast will I require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of the man who sheddeth the blood of his brother will I require the life of man.

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Cross References

Leviticus 3:17It is an everlasting statute unto your generations, and in all your dwellings, that neither the fat nor the blood shall be eaten.

Leviticus 17:10And what man soever of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among you, who shall eat any blood, I will set my anger upon the man who shall have eaten blood, and will destroy him from among his people.

Deuteronomy 12:16Only of blood you may not eat; thou shalt pour it upon the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 14:21You shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it to the uncircumcised stranger who is in thy city, and he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it to the outward people; for thou art to be a holy people to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not eat flesh with the milk.

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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