And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting.(A) I will demand an accounting from every animal.(B) And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.(C)

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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.

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Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; (A)from the hand of every beast I will require it, and (B)from the hand of man. From the hand of every (C)man’s brother I will require the life of man.

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20 “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns(A) and say that a ferocious animal(B) devoured him.(C) Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”(D)

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20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

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20 (A)Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what will become of his dreams!”

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26 Judah(A) said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?(B)

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26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

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26 So Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and (A)conceal his blood?

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12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

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The Law Concerning Violence

12 (A)“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

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33 “‘Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land,(A) and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

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33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

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33 So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood (A)defiles the land, and no [a]atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except (B)by the blood of him who shed it.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 35:33 Lit. covering

and they shall declare: “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done.

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And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

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Then they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.

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and you will have purged(A) from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

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So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.

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So (A)you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.

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11 How much more—when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed—should I not now demand his blood(A) from your hand and rid the earth of you!”

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11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

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11 How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Therefore, shall I not now (A)require his [a]blood at your hand and [b]remove you from the earth?”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 4:11 Or bloodshed
  2. 2 Samuel 4:11 Lit. consume you

18 “Earth, do not cover my blood;(A)
    may my cry(B) never be laid to rest!(C)

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18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

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18 “O earth, do not cover my blood,
And (A)let my cry have no resting place!

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