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Genesis 9:5

American Standard Version

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.

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Genesis 9:5 in other translations

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.

Genesis 9:5 · World English Bible

Genesis 9:5 in context

  1. 3Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.
  2. 4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
  3. 5And 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.
  4. 6Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
  5. 7And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.