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Genesis 9:5-6 KJV
Genesis · chapter 9 · verses 5–6
5And 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. 6Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.Genesis 9:5-6 · King James Version
Genesis 9:5-6 in context
3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5And 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.
6Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
7And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
8And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
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Key words (Strong's)
- sheddethshâphakto spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metalH8210 →
- requiredârashproperly, to tread or frequentH1875 →
- brotherʼâcha brother )H251 →
- surelyʼaka particle of affirmation, surelyH389 →
- blooddâmblood of man or an animalH1818 →
- livesnepheshproperly, a breathing creatureH5315 →
- beastchayaliveH2416 →
- man'sʼîysha man as an individual or a male personH376 →
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We read, in the close of the foregoing chapter, the very kind things which God said in his heart, concerning the remnant of mankind which was now left to be the seed of a new world. Now here we have these kind things spoken to them.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7