Genesis 9:4

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Genesis 9:4

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

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

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KJV

King James Version

But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

American Standard Version

But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Genesis 9

² The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.

³ Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

⁴ But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

⁵ And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

⁶ Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

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