Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and 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 (Romans 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.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Genesis 9:5:
Genesis 9:1
Psalms 9:12
Hebrews 11:4
Revelation 19:2
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