21 Bible Verses about Human Blood Shed

So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.

“Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God
He made man.

He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.

‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,’ says the Lord, ‘and I will repay you in this property,’ says the Lord. Now then, take and cast him into the property, according to the word of the Lord.”

They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem;
And there was no one to bury them.

Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

“O earth, do not cover my blood,
And let there be no resting place for my cry.

You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

“I will also make the land drink the discharge of your blood
As far as the mountains,
And the ravines will be full of you.

“For her blood is in her midst;
She placed it on the bare rock;
She did not pour it on the ground
To cover it with dust.

“That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance,
I have put her blood on the bare rock,
That it may not be covered.”

“For I will send pestilence to her
And blood to her streets,
And the wounded will fall in her midst
By the sword upon her on every side;
Then they will know that I am the Lord.

And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been slain on the earth.”

He will rescue their life from oppression and violence,
And their blood will be precious in his sight;

Thus says the Lord God, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols,

That your foot may shatter them in blood,
The tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies.”

And a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak;

A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years,

And a woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone,

And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was standing by approving, and watching out for the coats of those who were slaying him.’

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.