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Genesis 9:5

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I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

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Genesis 9:5 in other translations

And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, will I require the life of man.

Genesis 9:5 · American Standard Version

Genesis 9:5 in context

  1. 3Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
  2. 4But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
  3. 5I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
  4. 6Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
  5. 7Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”