¹⁷ Anyone who kills a human being shall be put to death.^(A)

Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.^(A)

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

³³ You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.^(A)

The Law concerning Violence

¹² “Whoever strikes a person mortally shall be put to death.^{(A) 13} If it was not premeditated but came about by an act of God, then I will appoint for you a place to which the killer may flee.^{(B) 14} But if someone willfully attacks and kills another by treachery, you shall take the killer from my altar for execution.^(C)

²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make humans^[a] in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth^[b] and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”^(A)

⁹ With it we bless the Lord^[a] and Father, and with it we curse people, made in the likeness of God.^(A)

Adam’s Descendants to Noah and His Sons

5 This is the list of the descendants of Adam. When God created humans,^[a] he made them^[b] in the likeness of God.^(A)