Berean Standard Bible

Genesis 9:6

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.”

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⁴But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

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.

⁷But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”

⁸Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

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