Genesis 9:4

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But you must not eat meat that still has its lifeblood in it.

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  • Deut 12:16 : 16 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
  • Deut 12:23 : 23 But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
  • Acts 15:20 : 20 Instead, we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, sexual immorality, meat that has been strangled, and blood.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
  • Lev 17:10-14 : 10 Any Israelite or foreigner living among them who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person and cut them off from their people. 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. 12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood. 13 Any Israelite or foreigner living among you who hunts and catches a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood and cover it with earth. 14 For the life of every creature is in its blood, and I have told the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is in its blood. Anyone who eats it must be cut off.
  • Lev 19:26 : 26 Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. Do not practice divination or seek omens.
  • Lev 3:17 : 17 This is a permanent statute for your generations in all your dwelling places: You must not eat any fat or blood.
  • Lev 7:26 : 26 And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
  • Deut 15:23 : 23 However, you must not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
  • 1 Sam 14:33-34 : 33 Someone reported to Saul, 'Look, the troops are sinning against the Lord by eating meat with blood in it.' Saul said, 'You have broken faith. Roll a large stone over here to me at once.' 34 Then he said, 'Go among the men and tell them, ‘Each of you bring me your ox and sheep, and slaughter them here and eat. Do not sin against the Lord by eating meat with blood in it.’' That night, everyone brought their oxen and slaughtered them there.
  • Deut 14:21 : 21 You shall not eat anything that dies naturally. You may give it to the foreigner living in your towns so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people set apart for the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
  • Acts 15:25 : 25 It seemed good to us, being in agreement, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 12:23-24
    2 verses
    88%

    23But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

    24You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Lev 17:10-15
    6 verses
    87%

    10Any Israelite or foreigner living among them who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person and cut them off from their people.

    11For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

    12Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.

    13Any Israelite or foreigner living among you who hunts and catches a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood and cover it with earth.

    14For the life of every creature is in its blood, and I have told the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is in its blood. Anyone who eats it must be cut off.

    15Anyone, whether native or foreigner, who eats an animal that died naturally or was torn by wild animals must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and they will remain unclean until evening. Then they will be clean.

  • Lev 7:24-27
    4 verses
    83%

    24The fat of an animal found dead and the fat of an animal torn by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose but must not be eaten.

    25Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering to the Lord is made must be cut off from their people.

    26And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.

    27Anyone who eats blood must be cut off from their people.

  • Gen 9:3
    81%

    3Every living creature that moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the plants, I now give you everything.

  • Deut 15:23
    81%

    23However, you must not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Deut 12:15-16
    2 verses
    81%

    15However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that He has given you. Both the unclean and the clean may eat it, as they would gazelle or deer.

    16But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Gen 9:5-6
    2 verses
    81%

    5I will require an accounting for your lifeblood. I will demand it from any animal and from every person. From each person, I will demand an accounting for the life of another person.

    6Whoever sheds human blood, by humans will their blood be shed; for in the image of God, God made mankind.

  • Lev 3:17
    78%

    17This is a permanent statute for your generations in all your dwelling places: You must not eat any fat or blood.

  • Lev 19:26
    78%

    26Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. Do not practice divination or seek omens.

  • John 6:53
    77%

    53Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.'

  • Ezek 39:17-19
    3 verses
    76%

    17Son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Speak to every kind of bird and all the wild animals, 'Assemble and come together from all around to my sacrifice that I am offering for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, so that you may eat flesh and drink blood.'

    18You shall eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all fattened animals from Bashan.

    19You will eat fat until you are satisfied and drink blood until you are drunk, from the sacrifice that I have prepared for you.

  • Lev 11:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

    9Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that have fins and scales, whether in the seas or the rivers.

  • Deut 14:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3You shall not eat any detestable thing.

    4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

  • Lev 22:8
    74%

    8He must not eat anything that has died naturally or been torn by wild animals, making himself unclean by it. I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 33:25
    73%

    25Therefore, say to them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: You eat meat with the blood still in it, you look to your idols, and you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?'

  • Exod 12:9
    73%

    9Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but only roasted over the fire—its head, legs, and inner parts.

  • Deut 14:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20You may eat any clean flying creature.

    21You shall not eat anything that dies naturally. You may give it to the foreigner living in your towns so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people set apart for the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Ezek 44:31
    73%

    31The priests must not eat any bird or animal that has died naturally or been torn by wild beasts.

  • Lev 7:20
    73%

    20If anyone who is unclean eats the meat from the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people.

  • Num 35:33
    72%

    33Do not pollute the land where you are, for bloodshed defiles the land; and no atonement can be made for the land that has been defiled by bloodshed except by the blood of the one who shed it.

  • Lev 11:2
    72%

    2Speak to the Israelites and tell them: These are the living creatures that you may eat among all the animals on the earth:

  • Lev 17:3
    72%

    3Anyone from the house of Israel who sacrifices an ox, a lamb, or a goat in the camp, or outside the camp,

  • John 6:55
    72%

    55For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

  • Heb 9:20
    72%

    20saying, 'This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to follow.'

  • Deut 14:9
    72%

    9You may eat anything in the waters that has fins and scales.

  • Lev 11:39
    72%

    39If any animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.