Genesis 9:3–4
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9:3You may eat any moving thing that lives.3 As I gave you4 the green plants, I now give5 you everything.
9:4But6 you must not eat meat7 with its life (that is,8 its blood) in it.9
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- 3 Heb “every moving thing that lives for you will be for food.”
- 4 The words “I gave you” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
- 5 The perfect verb form describes the action that accompanies the declaration.
- 6 Heb “only.”
- 7 Or “flesh.”
- 8 Heb “its life, its blood.” The second word is in apposition to the first, explaining what is meant by “its life.” Since the blood is equated with life, meat that had the blood in it was not to be eaten.
- 9 The words “in it” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. You must not eat meat with its life … in it. Because of the carnage produced by the flood, people might conclude that life is cheap and therefore treat it lightly. But God will not permit them to kill or even to eat anything with the lifeblood still in it, serving as a reminder of the sanctity of life.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Every creature that lives and moves will be food for you; as I gave the green plants, I have given you everything. However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.
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NLTNew Living Translation
I have given them to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables. But you must never eat any meat that still has the lifeblood in it.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Every moving thing that lives shall be for you as food. As I gave the green plants to you, I now give you everything. Only you shall not eat raw flesh with blood in it.
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KJV 1900King James Version
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.
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