Noach 9:5 · unit 1

TT #48 · Parashas Noach · Fourth Aliyah · Passuk 9:5

The Complete Passuk

וְאַ֨ךְ אֶת־דִּמְכֶ֤ם לְנַפְשֹֽׁתֵיכֶם֙ אֶדְרֹ֔שׁ מִיַּ֥ד כָּל־חַיָּ֖ה אֶדְרְשֶׁ֑נּוּ וּמִיַּ֣ד הָֽאָדָ֗ם מִיַּד֙ אִ֣ישׁ אָחִ֔יו אֶדְרֹ֖שׁ אֶת־נֶ֥פֶשׁ הָאָדָֽם׃

But for your own life-blood I will require a reckoning: of every beast I will require it; of man, too, will I require a reckoning for human life, of every man for that of his fellow man.

Chabad.org — 9:5

Source Citation

Torah Temimah points to the judicial parameters for a Ben Noach (Sanhedrin 57b).

Sefaria — Sanhedrin 57b

E-Daf image — Sanhedrin 57b (size=3)

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text
וְאַךְ אֶת דִּמְכֶם… אֶדְרֹשׁ — בֶּן נֹחַ נֶהֱרָג בְּדַיָּן אֶחָד וּבְעֵד אֶחָד, שֶׁלֹּא בְּהַתְרָאָה, מִפִּי אִישׁ וְלֹא מִפִּי אִשָּׁה, וַאֲפִלּוּ קָרוֹב…

English: A Ben Noach is executed by a single judge and a single witness, without prior warning, on the testimony of a man and not of a woman, and even of a relative…

Type of Learning

Custom (procedural differences for Noachide courts).

What Is Learned

Noachide capital cases operate under relaxed evidentiary and procedural rules compared with Israelite courts.