¹⁷ “‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.^(A)

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness^(B) on the part of God’s people.^(C)

⁵² “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.^(A)

Personal Injuries

¹² “Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.^{(A) 13} However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place^(B) I will designate. ¹⁴ But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately,^(C) that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.^(D)

³³ “‘Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land,^(A) and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

⁹ With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness.^(A)

From Adam to Noah

5 This is the written account^(A) of Adam’s family line.^(B)

When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.^(C)