Gen 9:4-5 | ESV | STEP | But you shall not eat flesh with its life , that is, its blood .

a Lev. 17:10, 11, 14; Deut. 12:16, 23; 1 Sam. 14:33; Acts 15:20, 29

Genesis 9:4-5

4 But you shall not eat flesh with its ^alife, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: ^bfrom every beast I will require it and ^cfrom man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.