Devine Scripture

Genesis 9:5

Genesis chapter 9 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

v.5This passage

v.6Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 21:12

    He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.

  • Deuteronomy 21:1

    If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath smitten him;

  • Leviticus 19:16

    Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am Jehovah.

  • Numbers 35:31

    Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

  • Genesis 4:9

    And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother’s keeper?

  • Matthew 23:35

    that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.