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NASB | Genesis 9:4 "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 9:4 "But you shall not eat meat along with its life, that is, its blood. [Lev 7:26; Acts 15:20; 21:25] |
Bible Question: Help me understand the word lifeblood and its meaning. I could eat flesh as long as it doesnt have blood in it is how I read it and all flesh has blood in it. |
Bible Answer: Tony Most of the blood of living things is located in the life giving circulatory system. If an animal is strangled the blood cannot escape the carcass. If the animal is stunned in the way chickens are slaughtered with electric charge the heart is shocked out of rhythm and cannot pump blood to evacuate the carcass. If an animal is killed and is cut up and packaged before the heart can empty the blood as is done in most of our slaughter houses in the name of production the circulatory blood will remain in the vessels and meat. I bought some roosters from the Amish and allowed them to kill and dress them and there was no dark areas around the bones or blood oozing out of every opening as is the case with the store bought chicken. I enjoy my freedom in Christ and value it. I think Adam and Eve enjoyed their freedom too. Does that one little thou shalt not they were given mean they were under bondage? Thanks much. |