^17 (A)‘Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.

⁵² But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, ^(A)for all who take the sword will ^[a]perish by the sword.

^10 (A)He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; ^(B)he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. ^(C)Here is the ^[a]patience and the faith of the saints.

³³ So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood ^(A)defiles the land, and no ^[a]atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except ^(B)by the blood of him who shed it.

The Law Concerning Violence

^12 (A)“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death. ¹³ However, ^(B)if he did not lie in wait, but God ^(C)delivered him into his hand, then ^(D)I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

¹⁴ “But if a man acts with ^(E)premeditation against his neighbor, to kill him by treachery, ^(F)you shall take him from My altar, that he may die.

²⁶ Then God said, ^(A)“Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; ^(B)let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over ^[a]all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” ²⁷ So God created man ^(C)in His own image; in the image of God He created him; ^(D)male and female He created them.

⁹ With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made ^(A)in the ^[a]similitude of God.

The Family of Adam^(A)

5 This is the book of the ^(B)genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in ^(C)the likeness of God.