“Whoever sheds human blood,
    by humans shall their blood be shed;(A)
for in the image of God(B)
    has God made mankind.

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Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

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12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

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

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14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

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

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17 And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.

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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)

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19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

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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.

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21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.

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

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27 And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

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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.

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33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

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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.

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32 And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

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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)

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16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.

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