Gen 9:5-7 | ESV | STEP | And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning : from every beast I will require it and from man . From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man .

c Ex. 21:12, 14; Lev. 24:17; Num. 35:31, 33; [Matt. 26:52; Rev. 13:10]

Genesis 9:5-7

5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: ^afrom every beast I will require it and ^bfrom man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

6 ^c“Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
^dfor God made man in his own image.
7 And you, ^{▼▼In Hebrew you is plural} be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”