Genesis 9:5

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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

"He that smiteth a man that he die, shall be slain for it.

And at

And the LORD said unto Cain, "Where is Abel thy brother?" And he said, "I can not tell, am I my brother's keeper?"

"'Thou shalt not go up and down a privy accuser among thy people, neither shalt thou help to shed the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

Moreover ye shall take none amends for the life of the murderer, which is worthy to die: But he shall be put to death.

If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, and lieth in the fields, and not known who hath slain him:

And why? For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.

that upon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed upon the earth: from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah the son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar:

Brother

and hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth; and hath assigned before: how long time, and also the ends of their inhabitation.

General references

"Thou shalt not kill.