Genesis 9:5

Tree of Life Version

Surely your lifeblood will I avenge. From every animal and from every person will I avenge it. From every person’s brother will I avenge that person’s life.

Cross References

Genesis 42:22

Reuben answered them and said, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t sin against the boy’? But you didn’t listen. Now, see how his blood is now being accounted for.”

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house and on his bed! Should I not now require his blood from your hands and rid the earth of you?”

1 Kings 2:6

So act according to your wisdom, and let his gray hair not go down to Sheol in shalom.

2 Kings 11:1

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

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus King Joash disregarded the loyalty which his father Jehoiada had shown to him—and slew Jehoiada’s son. As he was dying, he said: “May Adonai see and avenge!”

2 Chronicles 33:24

So his servants conspired against him and assassinated him in his own house.

2 Chronicles 33:25

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

Psalm 9:12

Sing praises to Adonai, who dwells in Zion. Declare His deeds among the peoples.

Exodus 20:13

“Do not murder.

Exodus 21:12

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

Leviticus 19:16

“You are not to go up and down as a talebearer among your people. You are not to endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Adonai.

Leviticus 24:17

“Whoever mortally strikes down any man must surely be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

“Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution, but the one who kills a man is to be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

Now if the manslayer strikes someone with an iron object so that he dies, he is a murderer and the murderer must die.

Numbers 35:17

If anyone has a stone in his hand that could be deadly and strikes anyone with it so that he dies, he is a murderer and the murderer must die.

Numbers 35:18

Or if someone has a wooden object that could kill and strikes anyone so that he dies, he is a murderer and the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:21

or with hostility hits him with his fist so that he dies, the one hitting him is a murderer. The blood avenger may put the murderer to death when he finds him.

Matthew 23:35

And so, upon you shall come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

Acts 17:26

From one He made every nation of men to live on the face of the earth, having set appointed times and the boundaries of their territory.

Deuteronomy 19:11

“But suppose someone hates his neighbor, waits in hiding for him, rises up against him, strikes him dead, then flees to one of these cities.

Deuteronomy 19:12

Then the elders of his hometown should send and take him from there and hand him over to the avenger of blood, to die.

Judges 9:56

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech—what he had done to his father by slaying his 70 brothers.