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Genesis 9:4-5

God began to teach men that blood is especially important. Later, he taught this to men in other ways. (See Exodus 12:7; Exodus 12:13.) Blood is especially important because it is a sign of Jesus’ death. Jesus died so that he could remove our blame. When he died, he gave his blood for us. Jesus has saved those who trust him. Jesus’ blood is a sign that he has saved them.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 9:4. _BUT FLESH WITH THE LIFE THEREOF_, WHICH IS _THE BLOOD_] Though animal food was granted, yet the _blood_ was most solemnly forbidden, because it was the _life of the beast_, and th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - The Blessing of Noah 2. מורא _môrā'_, “fear, reverence, awful deed.” חת _chat_, “dread, breaking of the courage.” Noah is saved from the deluge. His life is twice given to him by God. He had foun...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 9 The Earth Replenished _ 1. The divine commission (Genesis 9:1)_ 2. The covenant with Noah (Genesis 9:8) 3. The token of the covenant (Genesis 9:12) 4. The family of Noah ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    From P. The links between Genesis 9:1 and P's creation story are very close; the command to multiply, the dominion of man over the animals, the regulations as to food may be specially mentioned, as we...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ See App-13. BLOOD. This is the essence and foundation of the doctrine of substitution and atonement. "life for life", "The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23) and "wit...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _But flesh with the life thereof_, which is _the blood thereof_ Man's privilege is attended, first, with a strict ritual prohibition. The words might be more literally rendered thus, "nevertheless fle...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 18 CONFUSION OF TONGUES Genesis 9:4. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    5. _The Beginning of the Beginning Again_ (Genesis 9:1-7): _The New World-Order._ (This last felicitous phrase is borrowed from Skinner, ICCG, 169). And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT FLESH WITH THE LIFE THEREOF, WHICH IS THE BLOOD THEREOF, SHALL YE NOT EAT._ But flesh ... the blood. The intention of this prohibition was to prevent those excesses of cannibal ferocity, in eati...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    9:4 life, (c-6) Or 'soul,' and similarly ver. 5....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FLOOD This narrative records the judgment of God upon the sinful forefathers of mankind, and His preservation of a righteous family, in whom the divine purposes for men might be carried out. The s...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DIVINE BLESSING AND COVENANT. NOAH AND THE VINE. THE CURSE OF CANAAN 1-7. The primeval benediction of man (Genesis 1:28) is now repeated and enlarged. Animal food is allowed (cp. Genesis 1:29), bu...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BUT FLESH.... — The words are remarkable. “Only flesh in its soul, its blood, ye shall not eat.” The Authorised Version is probably right in taking _blood_ as in apposition to _soul,_ which word means...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַךְ ־בָּשָׂ֕ר בְּ נַפְשֹׁ֥ו דָמֹ֖ו לֹ֥א תֹאכ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S COVENANT WITH NOAH Genesis 9:1 As the human race started afresh on its career, God blessed it, as at the first. God always stands with us in a new start. The prohibition against the use of bloo...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The new order in human affairs was initiated by the bestowment of a blessing on Noah and his sons. The first note of change is seen in the word which declared man's relation to the lower orders. In Ed...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (d) But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. (d) That is, living creatures, and the flesh of beasts that are strangled: and by this all cruelty is forbidden....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    With blood. This was a matter of indifference in itself, like the forbidden fruit. But God gave the prohibition, to keep people at a greater distance from imbruing their hands in the blood of others,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. There is somewhat very striking in this precept; and which is more than once, again repeated, under the law, with the rea...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4._But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof _Some thus explain this passages ‘Ye may not eat a member cut off from a living animal,’ which is too trifling. However, since there is n...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 9 begins the history of the new earth. God blesses the earth more than before; and the answer to the sweet savour of the sacrifice assures the world that a universal deluge will never recur...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT FLESH WITH THE LIFE THEREOF, [WHICH IS] THE BLOOD THEREOF, SHALL YOU NOT EAT. This is the only exception to the eating of flesh; it was not to be eaten with the blood in it, which is said to be it...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. Ver. 4. _But flesh with the life thereof, the blood._] Blood was forbidden: First, as not so wholesome food: Secondly,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But flesh with the blood thereof shall ye not eat_ One meaning of this may be, Ye shall not cut off, tear away, or take any member or part of any creature for your food, while it is yet alive; but ye...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 God blesseth Noah. 4 Blood and murder are forbidden. 9 Gods Couenant 13 signified by the Rainebow. 18 Noah replenisheth the world, 20 planteth a Vineyard, 21 is drunken, and mocked of his sonn...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. Although the eating of flesh was permitted, yet a restriction is added to the concession, namely, that excluding flesh as...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    God blesses Noah and His Sons...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    FOURTH PART THE GENESIS OF THE NEW, WORLD-HISTORICAL, HUMAN RACE; OF THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE FORM OF SIN THAT NOW COMES IN, AND OF THE NEW FORM OF PIETY; OF THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE BLESSING OF SHEM...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    A NEW BEGINNING FOR MAN The earth itself having been purged by water, furnishing a totally new condition of circumstances for mankind and animals, now God establishes man in a new dispensation of thin...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-7 The main reason of forbidding the eating of blood, doubtless was because the shedding of blood in sacrifices was to keep the worshippers in mind of the great atonement; yet it seems intended also...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WITH THE LIFE THEREOF, i.e. whilst it lives, or taken from the creature before it be quite dead; which was an ancient practice, and an effect either of luxury or cruelty. WHICH IS THE BLOOD THEREOF, i...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 9:4 But H389 eat H398 (H8799) flesh H1320 life H5315 blood H1818 the life - Leviticus 3:17,...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S DETAILED INSTRUCTION TO NOAH AND HIS SONS (GENESIS 9:1) In this whole passage God is Elohim, the Creator, for He is as it were beginning again, and reinstating man as His representatives on eart...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Noamic covenant. Noah's shame and Ham's sin. CHARACTERS: Noah and family. CONCLUSION: The believer is as secure as God's promises are true. No promise of God can fail. KEY WORD: Covenant,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 9:4. _But the blood ye shall not eat._ This prohibition of blood is repeated. Leviticus 17; Deuteronomy 12. And being connected with murder in the following verse, we are taught to abstain fro...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _God blessed Noah and his sons_ THE DIVINE BENEDICTION ON THE NEW HUMANITY I. PROVISION FOR THE CONTINUANCE OF ITS PHYSICAL LIFE. This divinely appointed provision for the continuance of man upon th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 9:1 The earlier positive instruction that humans should exercise authority over the other living creatures (Genesis 1:28) is replaced by the negative comment that those creatur...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 9:1. God] Heb. _Elohim_. BLESSED] Similar to the blessing pronounced upon Adam and Eve (Genesis 1:28.— GENESIS 9:2. THE FEAR OF YOU, AND THE DREAD OF YOU] The fear of you, as...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 9:1 AND GOD—_Elohim_, not because belonging to the Elohistic document (Block, Tuch, Colcnso); but rather because throughout this section the Deity is exhibited in his relations to...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the eaRuth (Genesis 9:1). And so the commandment that was given to Adam at the beginning is now given to Noah...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    the life. Leviticus 3:17 Leviticus 7:26 Leviticus 17:10 Leviticus 19:26...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE EARTH RENEWED AND BLESSED Genesis 9:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Let us give you some of the parallelisms which are found between Noachic times and events, and those which will mark the last days. Some...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat — Blood made atonement for the soul, Leviticus 17:11. The life of the sacrifice was accepted for the life of the sinner. B...

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