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But flesh with the soul (or life) thereof, which is its blood, ye shall not eat.

For surely your blood which is your souls I will require; at the hand of every animal I will require it and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother I will require the soul (or life) of man.

Whoever sheds man’s blood in man, his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God is man made.

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“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.(A) And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting.(B) I will demand an accounting from every animal.(C) And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.(D)

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

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