Genesis 9:5

Catholic Public Domain Version

For I will examine the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast. So also, at the hand of mankind, at the hand of each man and his brother, I will examine the life of mankind.

Cross References

Genesis 42:22

And Reuben, one of them, said: "Did not I say to you, 'Do not sin against the boy,' and you would not listen to me? See, his blood is exacted."

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more so now, when impious men have put to death an innocent man in his own house, upon his bed, shall I not require his blood from your hand, and take you away from the earth?"

1 Kings 2:6

Therefore, act according to your wisdom. And you shall not allow his gray head to be led away to death in peace.

2 Kings 11:1

Truly, Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, seeing that her son was dead, rose up and put to death all the royal offspring.

2 Chronicles 24:22

And king Joash did not remember the mercy with which Jehoiada, his father, had treated him; instead he put to death his son. And as he was dying, he said: "May the Lord see and take account."

2 Chronicles 33:24

And when his servants had conspired against him, they killed him in his own house.

2 Chronicles 33:25

But the rest of the multitude of the people, having slain those who had struck down Amon, appointed his son, Josiah, as king in his place.

Psalm 9:12

Sing a psalm to the Lord, who dwells in Zion. Announce his study among the Gentiles.

Exodus 20:13

You shall not murder.

Exodus 21:12

Whoever strikes a man, intending to murder, shall be put to death.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not be a detractor, nor a whisperer, among the people. You shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 24:17

Whoever will have struck and killed a man shall be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

Whoever strikes down a beast, shall repay another. Whoever strikes a man shall be punished.

Numbers 35:16

If anyone will have struck someone with iron, and he who was struck will have died, then he shall be guilty of homicide, and he himself shall die.

Numbers 35:17

If he will have thrown a stone, and he who has been struck lies dead, then he shall be punished similarly.

Numbers 35:18

If he who has been struck with wood passes away, he shall be avenged by the blood of the one who struck him.

Numbers 35:21

or, while being his enemy, strikes him with his hand, and so he has died, the attacker shall be guilty of murder. The kinsman of the deceased, as soon as he finds him, shall cut his throat.

Matthew 23:35

so that upon you may fall all the blood of the just, which has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

Acts 17:26

And he has made, out of one, every family of man: to live upon the face of the entire earth, determining the appointed seasons and the limits of their habitation,

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if anyone, having hatred for his neighbor, will have lain in ambush for his life, and, rising up, will have struck him, and he will have died, and if he will have fled to one of the cities stated above,

Deuteronomy 19:12

the elders of his city shall send, and they shall take him from the place of refuge, and they shall deliver him into the hand of the relative of him whose blood was shed, and he shall die.

Judges 9:56

And so did God repay the evil that Abimelech had done against his father by killing his seventy brothers.