Genesis 9:5

Modern English Version

But for your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; from every animal will I require it; of man, too, will I require a reckoning for human life, of every man for that of his fellow man.

Cross References

Genesis 42:22

Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Therefore, his blood is now required of us.”

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more so, when guilty men have slain an innocent man in his own house on his own bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand and wipe you from the earth?”

1 Kings 2:6

Do the right thing according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to the grave in peace.

2 Kings 11:1

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

2 Chronicles 24:22

And Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada the father of Zechariah had shown him, but killed his son. As he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see and avenge!”

2 Chronicles 33:24

And his servants plotted against him, and they killed him in his palace.

2 Chronicles 33:25

Then the people of the land struck down all those who conspired against King Amon. The people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

Psalm 9:12

He who avenges deaths remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the humble.

Exodus 20:13

You shall not murder.

Exodus 21:12

He that strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, nor shall you stand by while the life of your neighbor is in danger: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 24:17

Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

Whoever kills an animal shall make restitution. And whoever kills a man shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

If he strikes him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:17

If he strikes him with a stone in hand, by which he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:18

Or if he strikes him with a weapon of wood in hand, by which he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:21

or in hatred struck him with his hand, so he died, he that struck him shall surely be put to death, because he is a murderer. The avenger of blood will slay the murderer when he meets him.

Matthew 23:35

that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Acts 17:26

He has made from one blood every nation of men to live on the entire surface of the earth, having appointed fixed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and mortally strikes him, causing him to die, and flees to one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 19:12

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

Judges 9:56

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he committed against his father by killing his seventy brothers.