I will demand your blood for your lives. That is, I will demand the life of any animal that kills a person. And I will demand the life of any person who takes another person’s life.
Deuteronomy 19:12 - Easy To Read Version If that happens, then the elders (leaders) in that man’s home town must send someone to get him and take him away from the city of safety. Those leaders must give that man to the close relative. [125] The murderer must die. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then the elders of his own city shall send for him and fetch him from there and give him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die. American Standard Version (1901) then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. Common English Bible elders from the killer’s hometown will send word, and the killer will be sent back from there. They will then hand him over to the blood avenger, and he will be executed. Catholic Public Domain Version the elders of his city shall send, and they shall take him from the place of refuge, and they shall deliver him into the hand of the relative of him whose blood was shed, and he shall die. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The ancients of his city shall send, and take him out of the place of refuge: and shall deliver him into the hand of the kinsman of him whose blood was shed. And he shall die. |
I will demand your blood for your lives. That is, I will demand the life of any animal that kills a person. And I will demand the life of any person who takes another person’s life.
Now the whole family is against me. They said to me, ‘Bring us the son who killed his brother and we will kill him. Why? Because he killed his brother.’ My son is like the last spark of a fire. If they kill my son, then that fire will burn out and be finished. He is the only son left alive to get his father’s property. So my {dead} husband’s property will go to someone else and his name will be removed from the land.”
But if a person planned to kill another person because he is angry or hates him, then that killer must be punished. Take him away from my altar [134] and kill him.
“But a man might hate another person. That man might hide, waiting to kill the person he hates. He might kill that person and run away into one of those cities of safety.
You must not feel sorry for him. He was guilty of killing an innocent person. You must remove that guilt from Israel. Then everything will go well for you.
“{The Levites will say,} ‘Cursed is the person that kills another person, even if he is not caught!’