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


In Context

1 And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;

2 and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens, on all that creepeth on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea — into your hand they have been given.

3 Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

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

5 'And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I require the life of man;

6 whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He 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 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 World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:4But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall 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.