Genesis 9:4

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 12:16 : 16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
  • Deut 12:23 : 23 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
  • Acts 15:20 : 20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."
  • Lev 17:10-14 : 10 "'Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who 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 on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. 12 Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, "No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood." 13 "'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust. 14 For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, "You shall not eat the blood of any kind of 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 any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
  • Lev 3:17 : 17 "'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"
  • Lev 7:26 : 26 You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
  • Deut 15:23 : 23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.
  • 1 Sam 14:33-34 : 33 Then they told Saul, saying, "Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood." He said, "You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me this day!" 34 Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, 'Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh in eating meat with the blood.'" All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.
  • Deut 14:21 : 21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh 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 rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
  • Acts 15:25 : 25 it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out 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%

    23 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

    24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

  • Lev 17:10-15
    6 verses
    87%

    10 "'Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who 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 on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

    12 Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, "No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood."

    13 "'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

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

    15 "'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.

  • Lev 7:24-27
    4 verses
    83%

    24 The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.

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

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

    27 Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"

  • Gen 9:3
    81%

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

  • Deut 15:23
    81%

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

  • Deut 12:15-16
    2 verses
    81%

    15 Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

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

  • Gen 9:5-6
    2 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Lev 3:17
    78%

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

  • Lev 19:26
    78%

    26 "'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.

  • John 6:53
    77%

    53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

  • Ezek 39:17-19
    3 verses
    76%

    17 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on 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 bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

    19 You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

  • Lev 6:27
    75%

    27 Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.

  • Lev 11:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Deut 14:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

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

  • Lev 22:8
    74%

    8 That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.

  • Exod 22:31
    73%

    31 "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

  • Ezek 33:25
    73%

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

  • Exod 12:9
    73%

    9 Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

  • Deut 14:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20 Of all clean birds you may eat.

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

  • Ezek 44:31
    73%

    31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.

  • Lev 7:20
    73%

    20 but the soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

  • Num 35:33
    72%

    33 "'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.

  • Lev 11:2
    72%

    2 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'These are the living things which you may 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 a bull, 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 may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat;

  • Lev 11:39
    72%

    39 "'If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.