Genesis 9:4
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
KJV
Excepto, quod carnem cum sanguine non comedetis.
Vulgate
πλὴν κρέας ἐν αἵματι ψυχῆς οὐ φάγεσθε·
LXX
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
ASV
אַךְ בָּשָׂ֕ר בְּ/נַפְשׁ֥/וֹ דָמ֖/וֹ לֹ֥א תֹאכֵֽלוּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אַךְ
'k
adverb · 158×
וֹ
v
noun · 269×
וֹ
v
noun · 356×
י
y
noun · 752×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 811×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2417God entrusted animals to the stewardship of those whom he created in his own image.197 Hence it is legitimate to use animals for food and clothing. They may be domesticated to help man in his work and leisure. Medical and scientific experimentation on animals is a morally acceptable practice, if it remains within reasonable limits and contributes to caring for or saving human l…
Cross-references
- 1Sam 14:32 — And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
- 1Sam 14:33 — Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
- 1Tim 4:4 — For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
- Acts 15:20 — But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
- Acts 15:20 — But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
- Acts 15:29 — That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
- Deut 12:16 — Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
- Deut 12:16 — Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
- Deut 12:23 — Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
- Deut 12:23 — Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
- Deut 15:23 — Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
- Ezek 33:25 — Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
- Lev 3:17 — It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
- Lev 3:17 — It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
- Lev 7:26 — Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
- Lev 7:26 — Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
- Lev 17:10 — And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will c
- Lev 17:10 — And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will c
- Lev 17:11 — For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
- Lev 17:14 — For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the b
- Lev 19:26 — Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.