⁵ And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting.^(A) I will demand an accounting from every animal.^(B) And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.^(C)

²⁰ “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns^(A) and say that a ferocious animal^(B) devoured him.^(C) Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”^(D)

²⁶ Judah^(A) said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?^(B)

Personal Injuries

¹² “Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.^(A)

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.

⁷ and they shall declare: “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done.

⁹ and you will have purged^(A) from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

¹¹ How much more—when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed—should I not now demand his blood^(A) from your hand and rid the earth of you!”