Genesis 9:4

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

But {H389} flesh {H1320} with the life {H5315} thereof, which is the blood {H1818} thereof, shall ye not eat {H398}.

only flesh with its life, which is its blood, you are not to eat.

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

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

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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.
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.
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

¶ 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.

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