Personal Injuries

¹² “Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.^(A)

¹⁴ But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately,^(A) that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.^(B)

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

¹⁹ The avenger of blood^(A) shall put the murderer to death; when the avenger comes upon the murderer, the avenger shall put the murderer to death.^(B)

²¹ or if out of enmity one person hits another with their fist so that the other dies, that person is to be put to death;^(A) that person is a murderer. The avenger of blood^(B) shall put the murderer to death when they meet.

²⁷ and the avenger of blood finds them outside the city, the avenger of blood may kill the accused without being guilty of murder.

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.

³² The Lord will repay^(A) him for the blood he shed,^(B) because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa^(C) son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better^(D) men and more upright than he.

¹⁶ So they seized her as she reached the place where the horses enter^(A) the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.^(B)