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Genesis 9:3-5
New Catholic Bible
Genesis 9:3-5
New Catholic Bible
3 “Whatever moves and has life will be used for your food. I give you all these things, just as I have already given you every green plant. 4 [a]Only do not eat flesh along with its life, that is, with its blood. 5 For your blood, that is, your life, I will require an accounting. I will require it of every living creature, and I will require it of every human in regard to other humans, each person for his brother.
Footnotes
- Genesis 9:4 In the popular Semitic view blood is the seat of the vital principle; it is not, however, a product of matter but is infused into it by God. Therefore, the blood belongs in its entirety to God, and in a special way the blood of human beings, made as they are in the image of God, who is their protector and avenger.
Genesis 9:3-5
New International Version
Genesis 9:3-5
New International Version
3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you.(A) Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.(B)
4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.(C) 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting.(D) I will demand an accounting from every animal.(E) And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.(F)
Genesis 9:3-5
English Standard Version
Genesis 9:3-5
English Standard Version
3 (A)Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And (B)as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its (C)life, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: (D)from every beast I will require it and (E)from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
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