Genesis 9:5-6
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5 I will require the life of every animal(A) and every man for your life and your blood. I will require the life of each man’s brother for a man’s life.(B)
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Exodus 20:13
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13 Do not murder.(A)
Exodus 21:12-14
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Laws about Personal Injury
12 “Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.(A) 13 But if he didn’t intend any harm,[a] and yet God caused it to happen by his hand, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.(B) 14 If a person schemes and willfully[b] acts against his neighbor to murder him, you must take him from My altar to be put to death.(C)
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- Exodus 21:13 Lit he was not lying in wait
- Exodus 21:14 Or maliciously
Numbers 35:30-31
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30 “If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death based on the word of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of one witness.(A) 31 You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of killing someone; he must be put to death.
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