Genesis 9:4

_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 eating flesh of living animals, to which men in the earlier ages of the world were liable, which is still practised in Abyssinia, as well as in drinking blood, which was frequently done by the pagan. The reason assigned, "the blood is the life thereof," embodies a fact which ranks among the most remarkable discoveries of modern science, that the blood is the circulating principle of life, and therefore, being sacred to Him who is the giver of life, must be carefully poured out of every animal used for human food. This injunction was re-enacted by the Mosaic law, which forbade the eating of blood (Leviticus 3:17;...

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 no copulative conjunction between the two words, _blood _and _life_, I do not doubt that Moses, speaking of the life, added the word _blood _exegetically, (288) as if he would say, that flesh is in some sense devoured with its life, when it is eaten imbued with its own blood. Wherefore, the life and the blood are not put for different things, but for the same; not because blood is in itself the life, but inasmuch as the vital spirits chiefly reside in the blood, it is, as far as our feeling is concerned, a token which represents life. And this is expressly declared, in order that men may have the greater horror of eating blood For if it be a savage and barbarous thing to devour lives, or to s...

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 to check cruelty, lest men, being used to shed and feed upon the blood of animals, should grow unfeeling to them, and be less shocked at the idea of shedding human blood. Man must not take away his own life. Our lives are God's, and we must only give them up when he pleases. If we in any way hasten our own death, we are accountable to God for it. When God requires the life of a man from him that took it away unjustly, the murderer cannot render that, and therefore must render his own instead. One time or other, in this world or in the next, God will discover murders, and punish those murders which are beyond man's power to punish. But there are those who are ministers of God to protect the...

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 this _life_ was to be offered to God as an atonement for sin. Hence the blood was ever held sacred, because it was the grand instrument of expiation, and because it was typical of that blood by which we enter into the holiest. 1. _Before_ the deluge it was not eaten, because animal food was not in use. 2. _After_ the deluge it was prohibited, as we find above; and, being one of the _seven_ Noahic precepts, it was not eaten previously to the publication of the Mosaic law. 3. At the giving of the law, and at several times during the ministry of Moses, the prohibition was most solemnly, and with awful penalties renewed. Hen

- 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 found grace in the sight of the Lord, and now he and his family have been graciously accepted when they approached the Lord with burnt-offerings. In him, therefore, the race of man is to be begun anew. Accordingly, as at the beginning, the Lord proceeds to bless him. First. The grant of increase is the same as at first, but expressed in ampler terms. Second. Dominion over the other animals is renewed. But some reluctance on their part to yield obedience is intimated. “The fear and dread of you.” These terms give token of a master whose power is dreaded, rather than of a superior whose friendly protection is sought. “Into your hand are they given.” They

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 his creatures—BLESSED—a repetition of the primal blessing rendered necessary by the devastation of the Flood (cf. Genesis 1:28)—NOAH AND HIS SONS,—as the new heads of the race,—AND SAID UNTO THEM,—audibly, in contrast to Genesis 8:21, Genesis 8:22, which was not addressed to the patriarch, but spoken by God to himself in his heart, as if inte

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 its life; not that the blood is of itself the life, but because it is a means of life, and that being exhausted, the creature must die, and because the animal and vital spirits appear to us most vigorous in it; yea, it is the ailment and support of them, and which furnishes out the greatest quantity of them: or rather it may be rendered, "the flesh with its life in its blood" m; while there is life in the blood, or while the creature is living; the meaning is, that a creature designed for food should be properly killed, and its blood let out; that it should not be devoured alive, as by a beast of prey; that raw flesh should not be eaten, as since by cannibals, and might be by riotous flesh eat...

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 (Genesis 9:18) 5. Noah's drunkenness (Genesis 9:20) 6. Noah's prophecy (Genesis 9:25) 7. Noah's death (Genesis 9:28) A new start is made after

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 well as identities and similarities of phrase and style. A change, however, is made in recognition of the innate qualities of creation which have come to light in the interval. It had not been God's original intention that food should be obtained by slaughter; there is no provision in Genesis 1:29 f. for carnivorous men or beasts. But in the light of history the failure of this ideal is recognised, and now slaughter is permitted for food and the animal creation is inspired with a new dread of man. And at this stage no selection is made of those who are eligible for the purpose; in the widest way every moving thing that has l

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 "without shedding of blood [and thus giving up the life] is no remission" (Hebrews 9:22)....