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


In Context

1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to 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 on the earth, 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; even as the green herb have I given you all things:

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

5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

6 Whoever 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 English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, 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.