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


In Context

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; with all wherewith the ground teemeth, and 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 have I given you all.

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

5 And 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.

6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:4Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall 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.