4Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.


In Context

1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

2 And let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every animal of the earth, and upon all fowl of the heavens: upon all that moveth on the ground; and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.

3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.

4 Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.

5 And indeed your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require: at the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of Man, at the hand of each the blood of his brother, will I require the life of Man.

6 Whoso sheddeth Man's blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man.

Genesis 9:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:4But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:4"But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:4Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:4But flesh with the life of it, which is its blood, shall ye not eat.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:4But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:4only flesh in its life — its blood — ye do not eat.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat.