But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord; so He took his life also.

by this you will be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here!

Send one of you and have him get your brother, while you remain confined, so that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. But if not, by the life of Pharaoh, you are certainly spies!”

So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—since our father’s life is so attached to the boy’s life—

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my living abroad are 130; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their living abroad.”

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt for seventeen years; so the length of Jacob’s life was 147 years.

And he blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, The God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

Now the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and the length of Levi’s life was 137 years.

And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel; and the length of Kohath’s life was 133 years.

Now Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the length of Amram’s life was 137 years.

But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life,

If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him.

But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you,

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.’

“For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.’

You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people; and you are not to jeopardize the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord.

An Eye for an Eye

‘Now if someone takes any human life, he must be put to death.

But the one who takes the life of an animal shall make restitution, life for life.

But Nadab and Abihu died in the presence of the Lord when they offered strange fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the lifetime of their father Aaron.

‘All the days of his life as a Nazirite for the Lord he shall not come up to a dead person.

But the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your life to this day? Have I ever been in the habit of doing such a thing to you?” And he said, “No.”

Moreover, you shall not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is condemned to death, but he must be put to death.

“Only be careful for yourself and watch over your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your sons and your grandsons.

so that you, your son, and your grandson will fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.