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)

Whoever sheds man’s blood,
his blood will be shed by man,(C)
for God made man in His image.(D)

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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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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:13 Lit he was not lying in wait
  2. Exodus 21:14 Or maliciously

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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