Genesis 9:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.

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  • Exod 21:28-29 : 28 If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible. 29 But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.
  • Gen 4:9-9 : 9 And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper? 10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.
  • Exod 21:12 : 12 He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.
  • Exod 20:13 : 13 Do not put anyone to death without cause.
  • Lev 19:16 : 16 Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.
  • Num 35:31-33 : 31 Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death. 32 And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of letting him come back to his place before the death of the high priest. 33 So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.
  • Deut 21:1-9 : 1 If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death: 2 Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured; 3 And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke; 4 And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken: 5 Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged: 6 And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley, 7 Will say, This death is not the work of our hands and our eyes have not seen it. 8 Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death. 9 So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
  • Ps 9:12 : 12 When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.
  • Matt 23:35 : 35 So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 9:6-7
    2 verses
    85%

    6 Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.

    7 And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.

  • Gen 9:2-4
    3 verses
    81%

    2 And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.

    3 Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

    4 But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

  • Gen 4:8-11
    4 verses
    74%

    8 And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death.

    9 And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper?

    10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.

    11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;

  • Lev 24:21
    74%

    21 He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

  • Lev 24:17-18
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    74%

    17 And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.

    18 And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life.

  • Gen 4:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.

    15 And the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven lives will be taken for his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one might put him to death.

  • Lev 17:10-14
    5 verses
    72%

    10 And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.

    11 For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.

    12 For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food.

    13 And any man of Israel, or any other living among them, who gets with his bow any beast or bird used for food, is to see that its blood is covered with earth.

    14 For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.

  • Ezek 35:6
    72%

    6 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.

  • Ezek 33:8
    70%

    8 When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly overtake you; and you say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way; death will overtake that evil man in his evil-doing, but I will make you responsible for his blood.

  • Ezek 3:18
    70%

    18 When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; and you give him no word of it and say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he may be safe; that same evil man will come to death in his evil-doing; but I will make you responsible for his blood.

  • Deut 12:23
    70%

    23 But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

  • Num 35:19
    69%

    19 He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

  • 2 Sam 4:11
    69%

    11 How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?

  • Josh 2:19
    69%

    19 Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, we will not be responsible; but if any damage comes to anyone in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

  • Deut 19:21
    69%

    21 Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Num 35:21
    69%

    21 Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood may put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

  • Gen 9:10
    68%

    10 And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.

  • Ezek 3:20
    68%

    20 Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.

  • Gen 1:30
    68%

    30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

  • Lev 7:26-27
    2 verses
    68%

    26 And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.

    27 Whoever takes any blood for food will be cut off from his people.

  • Ezek 32:6
    68%

    6 And the land will be watered with your blood, and the waterways will be full of you.

  • Deut 19:10
    68%

    10 So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

  • Deut 13:9
    68%

    9 But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

  • Deut 19:12
    67%

    12 The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.

  • Hab 2:17
    67%

    17 For the violent acts against Lebanon will come on you, and the destruction of the cattle will be a cause of fear to you, because of men's blood and the violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.

  • Ezek 33:6
    67%

    6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not give a note on the horn, and the people have no word of the danger, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them; he will be taken away in his sin, but I will make the watchman responsible for his blood.

  • Exod 21:12
    67%

    12 He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

  • Luke 11:51
    67%

    51 From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who was put to death between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I say to you, It will come on this generation.

  • Num 35:33
    67%

    33 So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.

  • Gen 42:22
    67%

    22 And Reuben said to them, Did I not say to you, Do the child no wrong? but you gave no attention; so now, punishment has come on us for his blood.