GEN 9:4 Parallel Verse View

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

AHB But flesh with its lifeblood still in it you shall not eat.

ULT But you must not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

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.

MSB (Same as BSB above)

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

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

WMBB (Same as above)

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_⌋.[fn]

9:4 Literally “flesh with its life, its blood”

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

Moff No Moff 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.

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

SLT But the flesh with its breath, its blood ye shall not eat.

Wbstr But flesh with the life of it, which is its blood, shall ye not eat.

KJB-1769 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. )

KJB-1611 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eate.
(But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat.)

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

Gnva 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. )

Cvdl Onely eate not the flesh with the bloude, wherin the soule is:
(Only eat not the flesh with the blood, wherein the soul is:)

Wycl outakun that ye schulen not ete fleisch with blood,
(out-taken/except that ye/you_all should not eat flesh with blood,)

Luth Allein esset das Fleisch nicht, das noch lebet in seinem Blut.
( Alone/Only eat the flesh not, the still lives in his blood.)

ClVg Excepto, quod carnem cum sanguine non comedetis.[fn]
(Excepto, that the_flesh when/with blood not/no you(pl)_will_eat. )

9.4 Carnem cum sanguine. ISID. Dantur eis cuncta animalia in escam, quia in vocatione gentium ad fidem nulla distantia est, quod in disco Petri figuratur. Sanguinem manducare prohibentur, ne vita pristina quasi suffocata in conscientia teneatur, sed effundatur per confessionem. Esus carnium concessus videtur post diluvium, propter infecunditatem terræ et hominis fragilitatem.

9.4 Carnem when/with blood. ISID. Dantur to_them everything animals in/into/on food, because in/into/on callingne nations to faith none distance it_is, that in/into/on I_learn Petri is_figured. Sanguinem to_eat are_prohibited, not life ancient as_if suffocata in/into/on conscience holdur, but effundatur through confession. Esus of_meat concessus it_seems after flood, because infecunditatem of_the_earth/land and of_man fragilitatem.

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

with,life_of,its blood_of,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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