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


In Context

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

2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.

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

5 I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

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 Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:4But flesh with the life of it, which is its blood, shall ye 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.