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The Golden Age of 4 February 1931 is reported to have stated that 'Vaccination is a direct violation of the everlasting covenant that God made with Noah after the flood'.

Claim ID claim-doctrine-vaccination-1931-noah-covenantConcerns 4 February 1931Explicit statement
Explicit statement · 4 February 1931 Supported

The Golden Age of 4 February 1931 is reported to have stated that 'Vaccination is a direct violation of the everlasting covenant that God made with Noah after the flood'. The Golden Age, 4 February 1931The Watchtower, 15 December 1952

The organisation’s position or later explanation: The 1952 Questions From Readers answers precisely this covenant argument in the negative without citing the 1931 article.

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Primary JW publication Supported

The Golden Age, “(vaccination article)”

4 February 1931 · p.293 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (Golden Age Publishing)

“Vaccination is a direct violation of the everlasting covenant that God made with Noah after the flood.”

Reported as part of a multi-page treatment of vaccination in that issue.

No online copy located.

Provenance and verification note

Confidence note. NOT opened. The archive.org collection '1930-1934TheGoldenAgeMagazine' does not contain the 4 Feb 1931 issue (no hits for 'everlasting covenant'). Wording matches jwfacts.com, ajwrb.org and Wikipedia 'Vaccination and religion'; these may not be independent of one another.

Corroborated by. src-w-1952-1215-qfr-vaccination

Notes. The 1952 QFR's explicit discussion of the Noachian covenant is consistent with such an argument having been published. Seek a scan before publishing the sentence as a verbatim quotation.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-g-1931-0204-vaccination-noah-covenant

Primary JW publication Verified

The Watchtower, “Questions From Readers (Is vaccination a violation of God's law forbidding the taking of blood into the system?)”

15 December 1952 · p.764 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“The matter of vaccination is one for the individual that has to face it to decide for himself. … it does not appear to us to be in violation of the everlasting covenant made with Noah, as set down in Genesis 9:4, nor contrary to God's related commandment at Leviticus 17:10-14. Most certainly it cannot reasonably or Scripturally be argued and proved that, by being vaccinated, the inoculated person is either eating or drinking blood”

The answer reverses the earlier published objection, adding that the Society 'cannot afford to be drawn into the affair legally or take the responsibility'.

Official source

Provenance and verification note

Confidence note. Opened on wol.jw.org; wording and page confirmed.

Corroborated by. src-jworg-faq-vaccination

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-w-1952-1215-qfr-vaccination

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