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The 7th Law of Noah concerns Eating from a Living Animal.
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from authoritive sources expressive of the absolute obligations upon the nations of the world. Anything else represents either
my own elucidations of the law at hand or something from another source not absolutely binding on the nations of
the world.
The following is the codification of the Sanhedrin's clarification of this prohibition
as put forth by RAMBAM in the Mishneh Torah, Sefer Shoftim, Hilkhoth Melakhim u'Milhamotheihem 9:14-16 [10-13]
9:14 [10] Likewise, a ben Noah is liable for eating a limb from a living
animal and for eating meat from a living animal, even for eating the smallest amount;
and blood from a living animal is permitted to him.
9:15 [11] Whether it is a limb or flesh that is detached from a living domesticated animal or from a living
wild animal, the prohibition remains. But it appears to me [to the Rambam],
that there is no death penalty against a ben Noah for eating a limb from a living animal that posseses
wings. [12]
One who slaughters an animal, even if he slaughted it by slitting the two signs (the wind
pipe and the gullet), all the time that it is still convulsing, any limb or flesh that is detached from
it is forbidden to sons of Noah [plural form of "ben Noah"], due to the prohibition against eating
a limb from a living animal.
9:16 [13] Anything which is prohibited for the People of Israel due to the prohibition against eating a
limb from a living animal, is also prohibited for the ben Noah. And there is something for which a ben
Noah is liable that an Israelite is not liable, and this is that a ben Noah is liable
for eating a limb or meat from a living animal, whether it is a domestic animal
or wild, whether it is pure (kosher) or an impure (non-kosher), they - the
sons of Noah - are liable, due to the prohibition against eating a limb from a
living animal and due to the prohibition against eating flesh from a living animal; and a limb or meat that was detached while the animal
was convulsing, even though a Jew slaughtered it at its two signs (the wind pipe and the gullet),
in any case, this meat is indeed prohibited to a ben Noah, due to the prohibition
against eating a limb from a living animal.
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