Genesis 9:5

A Conservative Version

And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, I will require. At the hand of every beast I will require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

Cross References

Exodus 21:12

He who smites a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death.

Psalm 9:12

For he who makes inquiry for blood remembers them. He does not forget the cry of the poor.

Matthew 23:35

so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Leviticus 19:16

Thou shall not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people, neither shall thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor. I am LORD.

Exodus 20:13

Thou shall not murder.

Acts 17:26

And he made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined prescribed times, and the limits of their occupancy,

Genesis 42:22

And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Sin not against the child, and ye would not hear? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.

Judges 9:56

Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in slaying his seventy brothers.

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more, when evil men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, LORD look upon it, and require it.

Leviticus 24:17

And he who smites any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

And he who kills a beast shall make it good. And he who kills a man shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:17

And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:18

Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:21

or in enmity smote him with his hand, so that he died, he who smote him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and smites him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 19:12

then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

1 Kings 2:6

Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and do not let his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.

2 Kings 11:1

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed.

2 Chronicles 33:24

And his servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.

2 Chronicles 33:25

But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon. And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.