Genesis 9:4-6
EasyEnglish Bible
4 But you must not eat meat that still has the blood of life in it.
5 If any person or animal kills a human, I will certainly punish them. Their punishment will be death.
6 God made people so that they were like himself.[a]
So if anyone kills a human,
another human must kill him.
Footnotes
- 9:6 See Genesis 1:26.
Genesis 9:4-6
New International Version
4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.(A) 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting.(B) I will demand an accounting from every animal.(C) And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.(D)
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