Genesis 9:4
Genesis chapter 9 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
KJV
King James Version · 1611But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Context
v.3Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.
v.4This passage
v.5And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, will I require the life of man.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 15:23
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.
- Leviticus 7:26
And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of bird or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
- Acts 15:29
that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.
- Leviticus 3:17
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
- Leviticus 19:26
Ye shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury.
- Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.