Genesis 9:3-4

God's Covenant with Noah

³ _s Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And _t as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. ⁴ But you shall not eat flesh with its _u life, that is, its blood.

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 12:15
   However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.
   1 Timothy 4:3 - 4
   Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
   
2. Cross References
   Genesis 1:29
   And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.
   
3. Cross References
   Leviticus 17:10 - 11
   If any one of the house of Israel or of the str...
   Leviticus 17:14
   For the life of every creature is its blood: it...
   Deuteronomy 12:16
   Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pou...
   Deuteronomy 12:23
   Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for...
   1 Samuel 14:33
   Then they told Saul, "Behold, the people are si...
   Acts 15:20
   But should write to them to abstain from the th...
   Acts 15:29
   That you abstain from what has been sacrificed ...