21 Bible Verses about Human Blood Shed

So ye shall not pollute the land in which ye are, for blood, it pollutes the land. And no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. For in the image of God he made man.

And he said, What have thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, says LORD, and I will requite thee in this plot, says LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plot [of ground], according to the word of LORD.

They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

And now cursed are thou from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.

O earth, do not cover thou my blood, and let my cry have no [resting] place.

Thou shall be for fuel to the fire. Thy blood shall be in the midst of the land. Thou shall no more be remembered. For I, LORD, have spoken it.

I will also water the land, in which thou swim, with thy blood, even to the mountains. And the watercourses shall be full of thee.

For her blood is in the midst of her. She set it upon the bare rock. She did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust.

That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.

For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets. And the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword upon her on every side. And they shall know that I am LORD.

And in her was found blood of prophets, and of the sanctified, and of all who have been killed upon the earth.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. And their blood will be precious in his sight,

Thus says lord LORD: Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness uncovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and because of all the idols of thy abominations, and for the blood of thy sons, that thou gave to them,

that thou may dash thy foot in blood, that the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from enemies.

And behold, a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, after coming from behind, touched the edge of his garment.

And a certain woman, being with an issue of blood twelve years,

And a woman being with an issue of blood for twelve years, who, although she spent her entire living on physicians, was unable to be healed by any,

And when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I myself also was standing by, and approving his killing, and keeping the garments of those who killed him.

and to Jesus a mediator of a new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better than Abel.