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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Genesis 9:5

Verse Genesis 9:5. Surely your blood - will I require; at the hand of every beast] This is very obscure, but if taken literally it seems to be an awful warning against cruelty to the brute creation; and from it we may conclude that horse-racers, hare-hunters, bull-baiters, and cock-fighters shall be obliged to give an account to God for every creature they have wantonly destroyed. Instead of חיה chaiyah, "beast," the Samaritan reads [Sam. Yod Kaph] chai, "living," any "living creature or person;" this makes a very good sense, and equally forbids cruelty either to men or brutes.

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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