Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 9:5

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5. 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 ( :- ), armed with public and official authority to repress the commission of violence and crime. Such a power had not previously existed in patriarchal society. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-6" class="com-number"