Berean Standard Bible

Genesis 9:4

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

Genesis 9:4 verse artwork: But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

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²The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.

³Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

⁴But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

⁵And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

⁶Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

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