Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell y’all, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the boy’? But y’all wouldn’t listen. Now we must account for his blood!”
Genesis 9:5 - Y'all Version Bible Surely I will require accounting for y’all’s lifeblood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of every human, even at the hand of every person’s brother or sister, I will require the life of person. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And surely for your lifeblood I will require an accounting; from every beast I will require it; and from man, from every man [who spills another's lifeblood] I will require a reckoning. American Standard Version (1901) And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, will I require the life of man. Common English Bible I will surely demand your blood for a human life, from every living thing I will demand it. From humans, from a man for his brother, I will demand something for a human life. Catholic Public Domain Version For I will examine the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast. So also, at the hand of mankind, at the hand of each man and his brother, I will examine the life of mankind. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man. At the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man. |
Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell y’all, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the boy’? But y’all wouldn’t listen. Now we must account for his blood!”
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from y’all’s hand, and rid the earth of y’all?”
Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.
Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May YHWH look at it, and repay it.”
His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.
But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
For the one who avenges blood remembers them. Hᴇ does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
“‘You must not go around as a slanderer among your people. “‘You must not endanger the blood of your neighbor. I am YHWH.
Whoever kills an animal must make restitution; and anyone who kills a human must be put to death.
“‘But if anyone strikes someone with an instrument of iron, and the person dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must be put to death-death.
If anyone strikes someone with a stone capable of killing in hand, and the person died, he is a murderer. The murderer must be put to death-death.
Or if anyone strikes someone with a wooden object capable of killing in hand, and the person died, he is a murderer. The murderer must be put to death-death.
or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him must be put to death-death. He is a murderer. The blood avenger must put the murderer to death when he meets him.
so that upon y’all will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom y’all murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
From one human he has made every ethnic group of humanity to dwell in every part of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,
But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;
then the elders of his city are to send for him, and deliver him to the hand of the avenger of blood to die.
Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;