"But flesh with the life thereof, {which is} the blood thereof, shall ye not eat." — Genesis 9:4

Genesis 9:4 · KJV

“But flesh with the life thereof, {which is} the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.”

— Genesis 9:4

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Genesis 9 — Context

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth {upon} the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

But flesh with the life thereof, {which is} the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 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. {be...: Heb. be strong}

Deuteronomy 12:16

Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

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.

Leviticus 7:26

Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, {whether it be} of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

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.

Leviticus 17:10-14

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 cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 3:17

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