Genesis 9:6 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Leviticus 24:17 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

An Eye for an Eye

¹⁷ ‘Now if someone ^[a]takes any human life, he must be put to death.

Numbers 35:30 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

³⁰ ‘If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the ^[a]testimony of witnesses, but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

Matthew 26:52 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

⁵² Then Jesus *said to him, “Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword will perish by the sword.