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

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“Whoever sheds human blood,
    by humans shall their blood be shed;(A)
for in the image of God(B)
    has God made mankind.

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24 (A)so that the violence [a]done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and (B)their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the lords of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

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  1. Judges 9:24 Lit of the seventy

24 God did this in order that the crime against Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons,(A) the shedding(B) of their blood, might be avenged(C) on their brother Abimelek and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped him(D) murder his brothers.

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57 God also returned all the evil of the men of Shechem on their own heads, and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came [a]upon them.

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  1. Judges 9:57 Lit to

57 God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness.(A) The curse of Jotham(B) son of Jerub-Baal came on them.

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16 His (A)mischief will return upon his own head,
And his (B)violence will descend upon [a]his own skull.

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  1. Psalm 7:16 The crown of his own head

16 The trouble they cause recoils on them;
    their violence comes down on their own heads.

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