Genesis 9:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

And I will require a penalty for your lifeblood;  I will require it from any animal  and from any human; if someone murders a fellow human, I will require that person’s life.

Cross References

Exodus 21:12

‘Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.

Matthew 23:35

So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you,   from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah,   son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Leviticus 19:16

Do not go about spreading slander  among your people; do not jeopardise  your neighbour’s life; I am the Lord.

Exodus 20:13

Do not murder.

Acts 17:26

From one man  he has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.

Genesis 42:22

But Reuben replied, ‘Didn’t I tell you not to harm the boy?  But you wouldn’t listen. Now we must account for his blood! ’

Judges 9:56

In this way, God brought back Abimelech’s evil #– #the evil that Abimelech had done to his father when he killed his seventy brothers.

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from you and purge you from the earth? ’

2 Chronicles 24:22

King Joash didn’t remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him, but killed his son. While he was dying, he said, ‘May the Lord see and demand  an account.’

Leviticus 24:17

‘If a man kills anyone, he must be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, but whoever kills a person is to be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

‘If anyone strikes a person with an iron object and death results, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:17

If anyone has in his hand a stone capable of causing death and strikes another person and he dies, the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:18

If anyone has in his hand a wooden object capable of causing death and strikes another person and he dies, the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:21

or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood is to kill the murderer when he finds him.

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if someone hates his neighbour, lies in ambush for him, attacks him, and strikes him fatally, and flees to one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 19:12

the elders of his city are to send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood and he will die.

1 Kings 2:6

Act according to your wisdom, and do not let his grey head descend to Sheol in peace.

2 Kings 11:1

When Athaliah,  Ahaziah’s mother,  saw that her son was dead,  she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.

2 Chronicles 33:24

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

2 Chronicles 33:25

The common people  killed all who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.