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NASB | Acts 15:20 but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 15:20 but that we write to them that they are to abstain from anything that has been contaminated by [being offered to] idols and from sexual impurity and from [eating the meat of] what has been strangled and from [the consumption of] blood. |
Bible Question:
Reference to things strangled and blood from v20 below: Are these upheld today as being necessary things and if not, why? Acts 15:19,20: 19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: 20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. Acts 15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; Stand in His grace, WOS |
Bible Answer: God's day to you, WOS Pniktos is the Greek word for strangled, which means it will killed without the shedding of blood. The verb form is pnigo (choke) (Mat 18:28, Mar 5:13) ... the latter is translated drown. The root is pneo, which is breathe/ wind as in Acts 15:20. So I believe, this is about an animal dying by having its breath taken away, vice killed by letting the blood out. Deuteronomy 14:21 says we are not to eat anything already dead. We don't know how it died. As already pointed out Genesis 9:4, gave the regulation about the blood. It is also part of the Law (Lev 3:17,7:23-27, 17:10-16, 19:26; Deu 12:23-25). 1 Samuel 14:32 is one acount where there was a violation of the Law, I thank the sources which helped me: John Gill's Exposition of the Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The NAS Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon Searcher |