Genesis 9:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Indeed for your own lifeblood I will demand an accounting: from every animal I will demand it, and from a human being, each one for the blood of another, I will demand an accounting for human life.

Cross References

Genesis 42:22

Then Reuben responded, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do no wrong to the boy’? But you would not listen! Now comes the reckoning for his blood.”

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more now, when wicked men have slain an innocent man in bed at home, must I require his blood from you and purge you from the land!”

1 Kings 2:6

Act with all the wisdom you possess; do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

2 Kings 11:1

When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she began to kill off the whole royal family.

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus King Joash was unmindful of the devotion shown him by Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, and killed the son. As he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see and avenge.” Joash Punished.

2 Chronicles 33:24

His officials plotted against him and put him to death in his palace,

2 Chronicles 33:25

but the people of the land then slew all who had plotted against King Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his stead.

Psalm 9:12

Sing hymns to the Lord enthroned on Zion; proclaim his deeds among the nations!

Exodus 20:13

You shall not kill.

Exodus 21:12

Whoever strikes someone a mortal blow must be put to death.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go about spreading slander among your people; nor shall you stand by idly when your neighbor’s life is at stake. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 24:17

Whoever takes the life of any human being shall be put to death;

Leviticus 24:21

Whoever takes the life of an animal shall make restitution, but whoever takes a human life shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

If someone strikes another with an iron instrument and causes death, that person is a murderer, and the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:17

If someone strikes another with a death-dealing stone in the hand and death results, that person is a murderer, and the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:18

Or if someone strikes another with a death-dealing club in the hand and death results, that person is a murderer, and the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:21

or strikes another with the hand out of enmity and death results, the assailant must be put to death as a murderer. The avenger of blood will kill the murderer on sight.

Matthew 23:35

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

Acts 17:26

He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,

Deuteronomy 19:11

However, if someone, hating a neighbor, lies in wait, attacks, and strikes the neighbor dead, and then flees to one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 19:12

the elders of the killer’s own city shall send and have the killer taken from there, to be handed over to the avenger of blood and slain.

Judges 9:56

Thus did God repay the evil that Abimelech had done to his father in killing his seventy brothers.