GEN 9:4 Parallel View

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UST However, you must never eat meat that still has its blood in it, which made it live.

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

OEB Only you shall not eat flesh while the life is in it, that is, the blood.

WEB But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

NET But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.

LSV only flesh in its life—its blood—you do not eat.

FBV But do not eat meat with the lifeblood still in it.

T4T It is blood that causes creatures to be alive, therefore you must not eat meat that still has blood in it after the animal is killed. After you have drained the blood out, you may cook it and eat it.

LEB Only you shall not eat raw flesh with blood in it.

BBE But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

MOF No MOF GEN book available

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

ASV But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

DRA Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

YLT only flesh in its life — its blood — ye do not eat.

DBY Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.

RV But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

WBS But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

KJB But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
(But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye/you_all not eat.)

BB But flesh in the life therof which is the blood therof, shall ye not eate.
(But flesh in the life therof which is the blood therof, shall ye/you_all not eat.)

GNV But flesh with the life thereof, I meane, with the blood thereof, shall ye not eate.
(But flesh with the life thereof, I meane, with the blood thereof, shall ye/you_all not eat.)

CB Onely eate not the flesh with the bloude, wherin the soule is:
(Onely eat not the flesh with the blood, wherin the soule is:)

WYC outakun that ye schulen not ete fleisch with blood,
(outakun that ye/you_all should not eat flesh with blood,)

LUT Allein esset das Fleisch nicht, das noch lebet in seinem Blut.
(Allein esset the flesh not, the still lives in seinem blood.)

CLV Excepto, quod carnem cum sanguine non comedetis.
(Excepto, that carnem cum sanguine not/no comedetis.)

BRN But flesh with blood of life ye shall not eat.

BrLXX Πλὴν κρέας ἐν αἵματι ψυχῆς οὐ φάγεσθε.
(Plaʸn kreas en haimati psuⱪaʸs ou fagesthe.)

TTN Tyndale Theme Notes:

God’s Covenant with Noah

The first explicit reference to a covenant in Scripture occurs immediately after the Flood (Gen 9:1-17).

The corruption and violence of the human race had provoked God’s anger (6:11-13), but his gracious favor remained with Noah (6:8). When God charged Noah to build an ark to escape the impending deluge (6:13-17), he also promised to establish a covenant with him (6:18). God took the initiative to bind himself again to human beings and to the whole creation despite human faithlessness (see 6:1-7). Through this covenant, God guaranteed that he would maintain a relationship with this one family even as other divine-human relationships were being severed. God’s covenant promise to Noah came with his command to build an ark (6:14); Noah’s receipt of the covenant blessing depended on his obedience to this divine command (6:22; 7:5).

When Noah made an offering to God after the Flood (8:20-22), God elaborated on his covenant with Noah, indicating that it was a universal covenant with humans and with all living creatures (9:8-10). God promised never to send such a flood again as judgment on the world.

This covenant helps us understand God as a covenant maker. Although human beings deserve punishment because of their wickedness, God withholds ultimate destruction. God’s covenant with Noah did not establish an intimate relationship between God and each living being, but it recalibrated moral and ecological life to be as God intended it (9:1-7), leaving open the possibility of a more intimate covenant to come (see 17:1-21). Despite their evil, human beings are allowed to live in God’s world and seek a deeper relationship with the world’s Creator during their time on earth. God’s later covenants with his people made intimacy with him freely available to all (see Acts 2:22-40; 3:17-26).

Passages for Further Study

Gen 9:1-17; Ezek 14:12-23; Matt 24:37-39; Heb 11:7

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-exceptions

אַךְ

only

God is putting a limit on the way that people may eat meat.

בָּשָׂ֕ר & לֹ֥א תֹאכֵֽלוּ

flesh/meat & not eat

Alternate translation: “you must never eat animal flesh”

בְּ⁠נַפְשׁ֥⁠וֹ דָמ֖⁠וֹ

in/on/at/with,life,its blood,its

Since life is in the blood, God did not want people to eat meat that still had its blood in it. Rather he wanted them to drain it out first before they cooked it (also see Deuteronomy 12:16, 23). You could put that information in a footnote. Alternate translation: “that still has its life in it, which is in its blood.” or “with its blood in it, which made it live.” or “that still has its lifeblood in it.”

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