Genesis 9:4 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 9:4

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

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

only flesh in its life--its blood--ye do not eat.

DBT

Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
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.
Leviticus 3:17
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

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(4.) That during the continuance of the law of sacrifices, in which the blood made atonement for the soul ( Lev. xvii. 11 ), signifying that the life of the sacrifice was accepted for the life of the sinner, blood must not be looked upon as a common thing, but must be poured out before the Lord ( 2 Sam. xxiii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But flesh . . . the blood . . . shall ye not eat--The sole intention of this prohibition was to prevent these excesses of cannibal ferocity in eating flesh of living animals, to which men in the earlier ages of the world were liable.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

The seal of that covenant, viz. the rainbow, ver. 12-17. A particular passage concerning Noah and his sons, which occasioned some prophecies that related to after-times. (1.) Noah's sin and shame, ver. 20-21.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

GEN 9:4ACT 15:20 ACT 15:29
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
GEN 9:4ACT 15:20 LEV 3:17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
GEN 9:4DEU 12:23 LEV 17:11
GEN 9:4DEU 12:23 DEU 12:16
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
GEN 9:4ACT 15:20 REV 2:20
GEN 9:4ACT 15:20 REV 2:14
GEN 9:4DEU 12:23 LEV 17:13-14
GEN 9:4DEU 12:23 LEV 3:16-17

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