21 If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:

²¹ For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

⁴ And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.

¹⁷ A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

¹² When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

⁶ Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.