Genesis 9:5
For your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I will require the life of man at the hand of his brother man.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
4But flesh with blood of life ye shall not eat.
Cross References
Genesis 42:22And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Hurt not the boy, and ye heard me not? and, behold, his blood is required.
Exodus 21:12And if any man smite another and he die, let him be certainly put to death.
Leviticus 19:16Thou shalt not walk deceitfully among thy people; thou shalt not rise up against the blood of thy neighbor: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 24:21Whosoever shall smite a man, and he shall die, let him die the death.
Numbers 35:17And if he should smite him with a stone thrown from his hand, whereby a man may die, and he thus die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
Numbers 35:21or if he have smitten him with his hand through anger, and the man should die, let the man that smote him be put to death by all means, he is a murderer: let the murderer by all means be put to death: the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meets 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 →