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Genesis 9:4 KJV
Genesis · chapter 9 · verse 4
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.Genesis 9:4 · King James Version
Genesis 9:4 in context
2And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
6Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
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Key words (Strong's)
- fleshbâsârfleshH1320 →
- blooddâmblood of man or an animalH1818 →
- lifenepheshproperly, a breathing creatureH5315 →
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We read, in the close of the foregoing chapter, the very kind things which God said in his heart, concerning the remnant of mankind which was now left to be the seed of a new world. Now here we have these kind things spoken to them.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7