For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.
Numbers 35:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Or anyone who strikes another with a stone in hand that could cause death, and death ensues, is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And if he struck him down by throwing a stone, by which a person may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. American Standard Version (1901) And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. Common English Bible If someone strikes another with a stone in hand that could cause death and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must definitely be put to death. Catholic Public Domain Version If he will have thrown a stone, and he who has been struck lies dead, then he shall be punished similarly. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If he throw a stone, and he that is struck die: he shall be punished in the same manner. |
For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.
“When individuals quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or fist so that the injured party, though not dead, is confined to bed
I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged and bring blood upon you in wrath and jealousy.
Or anyone who strikes another with a weapon of wood in hand that could cause death, and death ensues, is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.
Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer who is subject to the death penalty; a murderer must be put to death.