Genesis 9:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Every

Exodus 21:12

And at

Brother

Acts 17:26

General references

Exodus 20:13

Bible References

Every

“Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.

And at

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”

You must not go about spreading slander among your people; you must not jeopardize your neighbor’s life; I am Yahweh.

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.

“If a murder victim is found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

For the One who seeks an accounting
for bloodshed remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Brother

From one man He has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.

General references

Do not murder.