Genesis 9:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ “But only your blood for your lives I require, from the hand of every beast I require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I require the life of man.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And surely for your lifeblood I will require an accounting; from every beast I will require it; and from man, from every man [who spills another's lifeblood] I will require a reckoning.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, will I require the life of man.

Common English Bible

⁵ I will surely demand your blood for a human life, from every living thing I will demand it. From humans, from a man for his brother, I will demand something for a human life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ For I will examine the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast. So also, at the hand of mankind, at the hand of each man and his brother, I will examine the life of mankind.

Genesis 9:5 Cross References

Genesis 42:22

And Re’uḇ

2 Samuel 4:11

“How much more, when wrong men have slain a righteous man in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth?”

1 Kings 2:6

“So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his grey hair go down to the grave in peace.

2 Kings 11:1

And Athalyah was the mother of Aḥ

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus Yo’ash the sovereign did not remember the kindness which Yehoyaḏ

2 Chronicles 33:24

And his servants conspired against him, and killed him in his own house.

2 Chronicles 33:25

But the people of the land smote all those who had conspired against Sovereign Amon, and the people of the land set up his son Yoshiyahu to reign in his place.

Psalm 9:12

For He remembers the seekers of bloodshed, He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Exodus 20:13

“You do not murder.

Exodus 21:12

“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall certainly be put to death.

Leviticus 19:16

‘Do not go slandering among your people. Do not stand against the blood of your neighbour. I am יהוה.

Leviticus 24:17

‘And he who smites the life from any man shall certainly be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

‘And he who smites a beast repays it, and he who smites a man to death is put to death.

Numbers 35:16

‘But if he has smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall certainly be put to death.

Numbers 35:17

‘And if he has smitten him with a stone in the hand, by which one could die, and he does die, he is a murderer. The murderer shall certainly be put to death.

Numbers 35:18

‘Or if he has smitten him with a wooden instrument that could kill, and he does die, he is a murderer. The murderer shall certainly be put to death.

Numbers 35:21

or in enmity he smites him with his hand so that he dies, the one who smote him shall certainly be put to death, for he is a murderer. The revenger of blood puts the murderer to death when he meets him.

Matthew 23:35

so that on you should come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Heḇ

Acts 17:26

“And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having ordained beforehand the times and the boundaries of their dwelling,

Deuteronomy 19:11

“But when anyone hates his neighbour, and shall lie in wait for him and rise against him and smite the life from him so that he dies, then he shall flee to one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 19:12

and the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and give him into the hand of the revenger of blood, and he shall die.

Judges 9:56

Thus did Elohim repay the evil of Aḇ