What does this mean Genesis 9:4 But you must never eat animals that still have their lifeblood in them.?

Question

What does this mean Genesis 9:4 But you must never eat animals that still have their lifeblood in them.?

Answer 1

Means after you kill them, you should drain the blood out of animals before you eat them.

Answer 2

It means that you must not eat is meat with blood still in it.

Blood sausage comes to mind - a cake that comes from a northern European country - can't think of the name of it off the top of my head at the moment - that is blood red and they use a white icing on it.  Other things as well - just can't think of them at the moment - not something I think about - or eat.

In times past, some even used to use the blood for the liquid needed to cook vs. water or some other liquid.  A habit frowned upon within scripture - as you pointed out with your quote.

Answer 3

They should be dead...not eaten alive.

Answer 4

It means you have to drain the blood out of the animal first. They do that in slaughterhouses.

Answer 5

A valid effort must be made to drain the blood from a slaughtered animal. Killed, tied up and a large artery is then cut immediately so the blood doesn't coagulate. It's impossible to get all the blood out and there used to be length of time the animal drained based on approx size.

Answer 6

According to this and Jewish laws, you should drain the blood of the slaughtered animal before you are allowed to cook it and eat it, also you should not eat the blood of an animal.

Answer 7

Probably what Robyn said.