Genesis 9:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

But flesh with its life, which is the blood, you shall not eat.

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  • Deut 12:16 : 16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.
  • Deut 12:23 : 23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the meat.
  • Acts 15:20 : 20 But that we write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
  • Lev 17:10-14 : 10 And whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell among you, that eats any manner of blood; I will set my face against that soul that eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul. 12 Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, nor shall any stranger who dwells among you eat blood. 13 And whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell among you, who hunts and catches any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust. 14 For it is the life of all flesh; its blood is for the life thereof: therefore I said to the children of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh: for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.
  • Lev 19:26 : 26 You shall not eat anything with the blood: nor shall you use enchantment, nor observe times.
  • Lev 3:17 : 17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood.
  • Lev 7:26 : 26 Moreover, you shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.
  • Deut 15:23 : 23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.
  • 1 Sam 14:33-34 : 33 Then they told Saul, "Look, the people are sinning against the LORD by eating with the blood." He said, "You have transgressed; roll a large stone to me today." 34 Then Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, 'Bring every man his ox and every man his sheep, and slaughter them here, and eat, and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood.'" So all the people brought every man his ox with him that night and slaughtered them there.
  • Deut 14:21 : 21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused, if it is received with thanksgiving;
  • Acts 15:25 : 25 it seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 12:23-24
    2 verses
    88%

    23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the meat.

    24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it upon the earth like water.

  • Lev 17:10-15
    6 verses
    87%

    10 And whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell among you, that eats any manner of blood; I will set my face against that soul that eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

    11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.

    12 Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, nor shall any stranger who dwells among you eat blood.

    13 And whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell among you, who hunts and catches any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

    14 For it is the life of all flesh; its blood is for the life thereof: therefore I said to the children of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh: for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.

    15 And every soul that eats what died of itself, or what was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then shall he be clean.

  • Lev 7:24-27
    4 verses
    83%

    24 And the fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat of an animal that is torn by beasts, may be used for any other purpose: but you shall not eat of it.

    25 For whoever eats the fat of the animal of which men offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.

    26 Moreover, you shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.

    27 Whatever soul it is that eats any blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

  • Gen 9:3
    81%

    3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; just as the green herbs, I have given you all things.

  • Deut 15:23
    81%

    23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.

  • Deut 12:15-16
    2 verses
    81%

    15 Yet you may slaughter and eat flesh inside all your gates, whatever your soul desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

    16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

  • Gen 9:5-6
    2 verses
    81%

    5 And surely for your blood, the blood of your lives, I will demand an account; at the hand of every beast I will demand it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother I will demand the life of man.

    6 Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man.

  • Lev 3:17
    78%

    17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood.

  • Lev 19:26
    78%

    26 You shall not eat anything with the blood: nor shall you use enchantment, nor observe times.

  • John 6:53
    77%

    53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except 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%

    17 And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: Speak to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves from all sides to my sacrificial feast that I prepare for you, even a great sacrificial feast upon the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.

    18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

    19 And you shall eat fat till you are full, and drink blood till you are drunk, at my sacrificial feast which I have prepared for you.

  • Lev 6:27
    75%

    27 Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy: and when some of its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in the holy place.

  • Lev 11:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcass you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

    9 These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them you shall eat.

  • Deut 14:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

    4 These are the animals which you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

  • Lev 22:8
    74%

    8 What dies of itself, or is torn by beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself with it: I am the LORD.

  • Exod 22:31
    73%

    31 And you shall be holy men to me; neither shall you eat any meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

  • Ezek 33:25
    73%

    25 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?

  • Exod 12:9
    73%

    9 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs, and its entrails.

  • Deut 14:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20 But of all clean birds you may eat.

    21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

  • Ezek 44:31
    73%

    31 The priests shall not eat anything that has died naturally, or was torn, whether it is bird or beast.

  • Lev 7:20
    73%

    20 But the soul that eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belong to the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

  • Num 35:33
    72%

    33 So you shall not pollute the land where you are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

  • Lev 11:2
    72%

    2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the animals which you shall eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

  • Lev 17:3
    72%

    3 Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,

  • John 6:55
    72%

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

  • Heb 9:20
    72%

    20 Saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."

  • Deut 14:9
    72%

    9 These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales you shall eat.

  • Lev 11:39
    72%

    39 And if any beast, of which you may eat, dies; he that touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.