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GENESIS — 9:6 shed

GEN719 It was taught: “If one is pursuing his neighbor to hill him, he is to be told: ‘Take heed, it is a Jew you are pursuing, a son of the covenant; and the Torah says: “One who spills the blood of a man in a man, his blood shall be spilled”‘ – Save the blood of one man [the pursued] through the blood of another [the pursuer] Sanhedrin 72b. TEMIMAH-GEN 47

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GENESIS — 9:7 fertile

GEN727 It was taught: “Ben Assai said: ‘If one does not fulfill the mitzvah of begetting children, it is as if he spills blood and diminishes God’s image, as it is written: ‘One who spills the blood of a man in a man, his blood shall be spilled, for in the image of God He made man,’ after which it is written: ‘And you, be fruitful and multiple” Yevamot 63b. TEMIMAH-GEN 48

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