Genesis 9:5
If your blood is shed by any animal, I will call it to account; and if your blood is shed by any person, I will call that person to account.
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In Context
4But do not eat meat with the lifeblood still in it.
Cross References
Genesis 42:22Reuben said to them, “Didn't I tell you, ‘Don't harm the boy!’ But you didn't listen to me. Now we're paying the price for what we did to him.”
Exodus 21:12Anyone who hits and kills someone else must be executed.
Leviticus 19:16Don't go around spreading false rumors about people. Don't keep quiet when the lives of others are at risk. I am the Lord.
Leviticus 24:21Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it, but anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
Numbers 35:17If anyone picks up something made of stone that could be used as a weapon and hits someone with it, and kills them, that person is a murderer and must be executed.
Numbers 35:21or if someone hits another with his hand and they die, the one who hit him must be executed because he is a murderer. When the avenger finds the murderer, he is to kill him.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:2-8
Blessing of Noah and His Sons. ( b. c. 2348.) 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 4 But flesh with the life… Read the whole commentary →