Genesis 9:5

New American Standard Bible 2020

I certainly will require your lifeblood; from every animal I will require it. And from every person, from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person.

Cross References

Genesis 42:22

Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Now justice for his blood is required.”

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and eliminate you both from the earth?”

1 Kings 2:6

So act as your wisdom dictates, and do not let his gray hair go down to Sheol in peace.

2 Kings 11:1

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and eliminated all the royal children.

2 Chronicles 24:22

So Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had shown him, but he murdered his son. And as Zechariah died he said, “May the Lord see and avenge!”

2 Chronicles 33:24

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

2 Chronicles 33:25

But the people of the land killed all the conspirators against King Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.

Psalm 9:12

For He who requires blood remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the needy.

Exodus 20:13

“You shall not murder.

Exodus 21:12

“He who strikes someone so that he dies shall certainly be put to death.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people; and you are not to jeopardize the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 24:17

‘Now if someone takes any human life, he must be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

So the one who kills an animal shall make restitution, but the one who kills a person shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

‘But if he struck him with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:17

And if he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which he would die, and as a result he did die, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:18

Or if he struck him with a wooden object in the hand, by which he would die, and as a result he did die, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:21

or if he struck him with his hand with hostility, and as a result he died, the one who struck him must be put to death; he is a murderer. The blood avenger shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

Matthew 23:35

so that upon you will fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Acts 17:26

and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

Deuteronomy 19:11

“But if there is a person who hates his neighbor, and waits in ambush for him and rises up against him and strikes him so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 19:12

then the elders of his city shall send men and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

Judges 9:56

So God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father in killing his seventy brothers.