Genesis 9:4
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- 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
But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.
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NLTNew Living Translation
But you must never eat any meat that still has the lifeblood in it.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Only you shall not eat raw flesh with blood in it.
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KJV 1900King James Version
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
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