Since you are banishing me today from the face of the earth, and I must hide from your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.’
Genesis 9:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Whoever sheds human blood, by humans his blood will be shed, for God made humans in his image. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God He made man. American Standard Version (1901) Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. Common English Bible Whoever sheds human blood, by a human his blood will be shed; for in the divine image God made human beings. Catholic Public Domain Version Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God. |
Since you are banishing me today from the face of the earth, and I must hide from your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.’
But Reuben replied, ‘Didn’t I tell you not to harm the boy? But you wouldn’t listen. Now we must account for his blood! ’
This is the document containing the family records of Adam. On the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God;
How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from you and purge you from the earth? ’
So don’t let him go unpunished, for you are a wise man. You know how to deal with him to bring his grey head down to Sheol with blood.’
When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.
So they arrested her, and she went through the horse entrance to the king’s palace, where she was put to death.
All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet, for they had put Athaliah to death by the sword in the king’s palace.
So his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his own house.
Someone burdened by bloodguilt will be a fugitive until death. Let no one help him.
a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a time to build;
instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord before his tabernacle #– #that person will be considered guilty. , He has shed blood and is to be cut off from his people.
‘If anyone strikes a person with an iron object and death results, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.
The assembly is to protect the one who kills someone from the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge he fled to, and he must live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
‘Do not defile the land where you live, for bloodshed defiles the land, and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
Then Jesus told him, ‘Put your sword back in its place because all who take up the sword will perish by the sword.
For it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For it is God’s servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.
A man should not cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God. So too, woman is the glory of man.
But if someone hates his neighbour, lies in ambush for him, attacks him, and strikes him fatally, and flees to one of these cities,
With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in God’s likeness.
If anyone is to be taken captive, into captivity he goes. If anyone is to be killed with a sword, with a sword he will be killed. This calls for endurance and faithfulness from the saints.
In this way, God brought back Abimelech’s evil #– #the evil that Abimelech had done to his father when he killed his seventy brothers.
Samuel declared: As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women. Then he hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord at Gilgal.