SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:5
Porque ciertamente vuestra sangre que es vuestra alma, yo la demandaré; de mano de todo animal la demandaré, y de mano del hombre; de mano del varón su hermano demandaré el alma del hombre.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 9:5
Verse 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 hyj 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 4-7 - The main reason of forbidding the eating of blood, doubtless wa because the shedding of blood in sacrifices was to keep the worshipper in mind of the great atonement; yet it seems intended also to chec cruelty, lest men, being used to shed and feed upon the blood of animals, should grow unfeeling to them, and be less shocked at the ide of shedding human blood. Man must not take away his own life. Our live are God's, and we must only give them up when he pleases. If we in an way hasten our own death, we are accountable to God for it. When God requires the life of a man from him that took it away unjustly, the murderer cannot render that, and therefore must render his own instead One time or other, in this world or in the next, God will discove murders, and punish those murders which are beyond man's power to punish. But there are those who are ministers of God to protect the innocent, by being a terror to evil-doers, and they must not bear the sword in vain, Ro 13:4. Wilful murder ought always to be punished with death. To this law there is a reason added. Such remains of God's imag are still upon fallen man, that he who unjustly kills a man, deface the image of God, and does dishonour to him.
Original Hebrew
ואך 389 את 853 דמכם 1818 לנפשׁתיכם 5315 אדרשׁ 1875 מיד 3027 כל 3605 חיה 2416 אדרשׁנו 1875 ומיד 3027 האדם 120 מיד 3027 אישׁ 376 אחיו 251 אדרשׁ 1875 את 853 נפשׁ 5315 האדם׃ 120
