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And[a] your lifeblood[b] I will require; from every animal[c] I will require it. And from the hand of humankind, from the hand of each man to his brother I will require the life of humankind.

As for the one shedding the blood of humankind,
    by humankind his blood shall be shed,
for God made humankind in his own image.

“And you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply in it.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 9:5 Or “only”; the same word that occurs at the beginning of v. 4
  2. Genesis 9:5 Literally “your blood belonging to your life”
  3. Genesis 9:5 Literally “from the hand of every animal”