Genesis 9:5
And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man’s brother I require the life of man;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4only flesh in its life—its blood—you do not eat.
6whoever sheds man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.
Cross References
Genesis 42:22And Reuben answers them, saying, “Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the boy? And you did not listen; and his blood also, behold, it is required.”
Exodus 21:12He who strikes a man so that he has died is certainly put to death;
Leviticus 19:16You do not go slandering among your people; you do not stand against the blood of your neighbor; I [am] YHWH.
Leviticus 24:21And he who strikes a beast repays it, and he who strikes [the life of] man is put to death.
Numbers 35:17And if he has struck him with a stone [in] the hand, with which he could die, and he dies, he [is] a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.
Numbers 35:21or he has struck him with his hand in enmity, and he dies, the striker is certainly put to death; he [is] a murderer; the redeemer of blood puts the murderer to death in his coming against 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 →