Genesis 9:5
Good News Translation
If anyone takes human life, he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human life.

New Revised Standard Version
For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.

New American Bible
Indeed for your own lifeblood I will demand an accounting: from every animal I will demand it, and from a human being, each one for the blood of another, I will demand an accounting for human life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.

every.

Exodus 21:12,28,29 He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death. . . .

and at.

Genesis 4:9,10 And the Lord said to Cain: Where is thy brother Abel? And he answered: I know not: am I my brother's keeper? . . .

Leviticus 19:16 Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.

Numbers 35:31-33 You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith. . . .

Deuteronomy 21:1-9 When there shall be found in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee, the corpse of a man slain, and it is not known who is guilty of the murder, . . .

Psalm 9:12 For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

Matthew 23:35 That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

brother.

Acts 17:26 And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.

Context
The Covenant of the Rainbow
4Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat. 5For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.6Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.…
Cross References
Genesis 42:22
And Ruben, one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy; and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is required.

Exodus 20:13
Thou shalt not kill.

Exodus 21:12
He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.

Exodus 21:28
If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

Exodus 21:29
But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

Judges 9:56
And God repaid the evil that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren.

2 Samuel 4:11
How much more now when wicked men have slain an innocent man in his own house, upon his bed, shall I not require his blood at your hand, and take you away from the earth?

2 Chronicles 24:22
And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said: The Lord see, and require it.

Psalm 9:12
For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

Genesis 9:4
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