Genesis 9:5-7
Easy-to-Read Version
5 Also, I will demand your blood for your lives. That is, I will demand the life of any person or animal that takes a human life.
6 “God made humans to be like himself.
So whoever kills a person must be killed by another person.
7 “Have many children and fill the earth with your people.”
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Genesis 9:5-7
New International Version
5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting.(A) I will demand an accounting from every animal.(B) And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.(C)
6 “Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;(D)
for in the image of God(E)
has God made mankind.
7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”(F)
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