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But you must not eat meat that still has the blood of life in it.

If any person or animal kills a human, I will certainly punish them. Their punishment will be death.

God made people so that they were like himself.[a]
So if anyone kills a human,
another human must kill him.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:6 See Genesis 1:26.

“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.(A) 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)

“Whoever sheds human blood,
    by humans shall their blood be shed;(E)
for in the image of God(F)
    has God made mankind.

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