But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
⛓ Read Genesis 9 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The blood prohibition (v.20) also rests on the Noahic command given to all humanity — 'flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat' — which suits Gentiles since it precedes and exceeds Israel's law. Often paired with Lev 17 as the rationale for a universally-binding minimum.
Medium confidenceThe blood abstention (v.29) coheres with the universal Noahic command against eating flesh with its blood, the natural basis for a rule binding on Gentiles.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'You shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood' is the primal Noachic blood prohibition predating Sinai, broadening the scandal of v.53 beyond Israel to a universal taboo. Adds Recurrence to the blood-prohibition background.
Medium confidence