'Life' in the Bible

But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you,

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.’

“For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.’

You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor; I am the Lord.

‘If a man takes the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death.

The one who takes the life of an animal shall make it good, life for life.