Genesis 9:5

Holman Christian Standard Bible

I will require the life of every animal and every man for your life and your blood. I will require the life of each man’s brother for a man’s life.

Cross References

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! ”

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 your hands and wipe you off the earth? ”

1 Kings 2:6

Act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray 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 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.”

2 Chronicles 33:24

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

2 Chronicles 33:25

Then the common people executed all those who conspired against King Amon and made his son Josiah king in his place.

Psalm 9:12

For the One who seeks an accounting for bloodshed remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Exodus 20:13

Do not murder.

Exodus 21:12

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

Leviticus 19:16

You must not go about spreading slander among your people; you must not jeopardize your neighbor’s life; I am Yahweh.

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 a man 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 a man 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.

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.

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.

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if someone hates his neighbor, 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 must send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood and he will die.

Judges 9:56

In this way, God turned back on Abimelech the evil that he had done against his father, by killing his 70 brothers.