(A)Whoever sheds human blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For (B)in the image of God
He made mankind.

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“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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24 (A)so that the violence [a]done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal would come, and the responsibility for (B)their blood would be placed on their brother Abimelech, who killed them, and on the [b]leaders of Shechem, who [c]encouraged him to kill his brothers.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:24 Lit of the seventy
  2. Judges 9:24 Or landowners
  3. Judges 9:24 Lit strengthened his hands

24 God did this in order that the crime against Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons,(A) the shedding(B) of their blood, might be avenged(C) on their brother Abimelek and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped him(D) murder his brothers.

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57 God also returned all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads, and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came [a]upon them.

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  1. Judges 9:57 Lit to

57 God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness.(A) The curse of Jotham(B) son of Jerub-Baal came on them.

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16 His (A)harm will return on his own head,
And his (B)violence will descend on the top of his own head.

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16 The trouble they cause recoils on them;
    their violence comes down on their own heads.

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