Genesis 9:5

New Century Version

I will demand blood for life. I will demand the life of any animal that kills a person, and I will demand the life of anyone who takes another person’s life.

Cross References

Exodus 21:12

“Anyone who hits a person and kills him must be put to death.

Psalm 9:12

He remembers who the murderers are; he will not forget the cries of those who suffer.

Matthew 23:35

So you will be guilty for the death of all the good people who have been killed on earth—from the murder of that good man Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berakiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

Leviticus 19:16

You must not spread false stories against other people, and you must not do anything that would put your neighbor’s life in danger. I am the Lord.

Exodus 20:13

“You must not murder anyone.

Acts 17:26

God began by making one person, and from him came all the different people who live everywhere in the world. God decided exactly when and where they must live.

Genesis 42:22

Then Reuben said to them, “I told you not to harm the boy, but you refused to listen to me. So now we are being punished for what we did to him.”

Judges 9:56

In that way God punished Abimelech for all the evil he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers.

2 Samuel 4:11

So even more I must put you evil men to death because you have killed an innocent man on his own bed in his own house!”

2 Chronicles 24:22

King Joash did not remember Jehoiada’s kindness to him, so Joash killed Zechariah, Jehoiada’s son. Before Zechariah died, he said, “May the Lord see what you are doing and punish you.”

Leviticus 24:17

“ ‘Whoever kills another person must be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

Whoever kills another person’s animal must give that person another animal to take its place. But whoever kills another person must be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

“ ‘Anyone who uses an iron weapon to kill someone is a murderer. He must be put to death.

Numbers 35:17

Anyone who takes a rock and kills a person with it is a murderer. He must be put to death.

Numbers 35:18

Anyone who picks up a piece of wood and kills someone with it is a murderer. He must be put to death.

Numbers 35:21

Or a person might hit someone with his hand and cause death. If it were done from hate, the person is a murderer and must be put to death. A relative of the dead person must kill the murderer when they meet.

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if a person hates his neighbor and, after hiding and waiting, attacks and kills him and then runs to one of these cities for safety,

Deuteronomy 19:12

the elders of his own city should send for the murderer. They should bring the person back from the city of safety and hand him over to the relative who has the duty of punishing the murderer.

1 Kings 2:6

Punish him in the way you think is wisest, but do not let him die peacefully of old age.

2 Kings 11:1

When Ahaziah’s mother, Athaliah, saw that her son was dead, she killed all the royal family.

2 Chronicles 33:24

King Amon’s officers made plans against him and killed him in his palace.

2 Chronicles 33:25

Then the people of the land killed all those who had made plans to kill King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.