Genesis 9:5-6 Devotionals, Articles & Bible Study

⁵And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

⁶Whoever sheds the blood of man,

by man his blood will be shed;

for in His own image

God has made mankind.

— Genesis 9:5-6

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