Genesis 9:4
Modern Translations
New International Version
"But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

New Living Translation
But you must never eat any meat that still has the lifeblood in it.

English Standard Version
But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

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

New American Standard Bible
But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

NASB 1995
"Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

NASB 1977
“Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Amplified Bible
But you shall not eat meat along with its life, that is, its blood.

Christian Standard Bible
However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.

Contemporary English Version
But life is in the blood, and you must not eat any meat that still has blood in it.

Good News Translation
The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it; I forbid this because the life is in the blood.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"But you are not to eat meat with blood in it. (Blood is life.)

International Standard Version
However, you are not to eat meat with its life—that is, its blood—in it!

NET Bible
But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

New King James Version
But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

King James 2000 Bible
But flesh with its life, which is its blood, shall you not eat.

New Heart English Bible
But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

World English Bible
But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

American King James Version
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat.

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

A Faithful Version
But you shall not eat of flesh with the life in it--which is its blood.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
But flesh with the life of it, which is its blood, shall ye not eat.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But flesh with the life thereof, I meane, with the blood thereof, shall ye not eate.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
But flesh in the life therof which is the blood therof, shall ye not eate.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Onely eate not the flesh with the bloude, wherin the soule is:

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Only the flesh with his life which is his bloud se that ye eate not.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
only flesh in its life—its blood—you do not eat.

Young's Literal Translation
only flesh in its life -- its blood -- ye do not eat.

Smith's Literal Translation
But the flesh with its breath, its blood ye shall not eat.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

Catholic Public Domain Version
except that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Only the flesh whose blood is in itself you shall not eat.

Lamsa Bible
Only flesh with the life thereof, that is, the blood thereof, you shall not eat.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But flesh with blood of life ye shall not eat.
















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