I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
Deuteronomy 19:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may 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 surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities;
Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Yisra'el, that it may go well with you.
Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret. All the people shall say, Amein.