Genesis 9:5

Revised Standard Version

For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it and of man; of every man's brother I will require the life of man.

Cross References

Genesis 42:22

And Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to sin against the lad? But you would not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.”

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand, and destroy you from the earth?”

1 Kings 2:6

Act therefore according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

2 Kings 11:1

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

2 Chronicles 24:22

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

2 Chronicles 33:24

And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his house.

2 Chronicles 33:25

But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

Psalm 9:12

For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Exodus 20:13

“You shall not kill.

Exodus 21:12

“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand forth against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 24:17

He who kills a man shall be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

He who kills a beast shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

“But if he struck him down with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:17

And if he struck him down with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:18

Or if he struck him down with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:21

or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death; he is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

Matthew 23:35

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

Acts 17:26

And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation,

Deuteronomy 19:11

“But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and attacks him, and wounds him mortally so that he dies, and the man flees into one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 19:12

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

Judges 9:56

Thus God requited the crime of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;