Genesis 9:5
Douay-Rheims
For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
surely your blood of your lives will I require--The fourth part establishes a new power for protecting life--the institution of the civil magistrate (Rom 13:4), armed with public and official authority to repress the commission of violence and crime. Such a power had not previously existed in patriarchal society.
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1871 · Genesis 9:5
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.