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Genesis 9:4

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But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
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  1. Deuteronomy 12:23Rank 1 from verse 4
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    23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

  2. Deuteronomy 12:16Rank 2 from verse 4
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    16Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

  3. Deuteronomy 15:23Rank 3 from verse 4
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    23Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

  4. Acts 15:20Rank 4 from verse 4
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    20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

  5. Leviticus 7:26Rank 5 from verse 4
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    26Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

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Genesis 9:4

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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blood

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Sense 1: The bodily fluid associated with physical life. Sense 2: Life taken, bloodshed, or guilt and responsibility for it. Sense 3: Kindred, shared human descent, or natural human nature. Sense 4: The juice of grapes.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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eat

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To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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9:1AND God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

9:2And 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.

9:3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

9:4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

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9:5And 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.

9:6Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

9:7And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

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