A moment in scripture
Genesis 9:5
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And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
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The surrounding passage
- Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
- Genesis 9:4
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
- Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- Genesis 9:7
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.