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Genesis 9:5

“I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.”

Verse in context — Genesis 9

3

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.

4

But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

5

I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

6

Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

7

Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.

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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).

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