Genesis 9:4 References

4 "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, aits blood.

a Leviticus 7:26, Leviticus 17:10-16, Leviticus 19:26, Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 12:23, Deuteronomy 15:23, 1 Samuel 14:34, Acts 15:20, Acts 15:29


Leviticus 7

26 'aYou are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.

Leviticus 17

10 'aAnd any man from the house of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, who eats any blood, bI will set My face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.
11 'For athe 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 bit is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.'
12 "Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, 'No person among you may eat blood, nor may any alien who sojourns among you eat blood.'
13 "So when any man from the sons of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, in hunting catches a beast or a bird which may be eaten, ahe shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.
14 "aFor as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, 'You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.'
15 "aWhen any person eats an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or an alien, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and remain unclean until evening; then he will become clean.
16 "But if he does not wash them or bathe his body, then ahe shall bear his guilt."

Leviticus 19

26 'You shall not eat anything awith the blood, nor practice bdivination or soothsaying.

Deuteronomy 12

16 "aOnly you shall not eat the blood; byou are to pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12

23 "Only be sure anot to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 15

23 "Only ayou shall not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

1 Samuel 14

34 Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, 'Each one of you bring me his ox or his sheep, and slaughter it here and eat; and do not sin against the Lord by eating with the blood.'" So all the people that night brought each one his ox with him and slaughtered it there.

Acts 15

20 but that we write to them that they abstain from athings contaminated by idols and from bfornication and from cwhat is strangled and from blood.

Acts 15

29 that you abstain from athings sacrificed to idols and from ablood and from athings strangled and from afornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell."