Genesis 9:5
5And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: afrom every beast I will require it and bfrom man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.Genesis 42:22
22And Reuben answered them, c“Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now dthere comes a reckoning for his blood.”2 Samuel 4:11
11How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now erequire his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”Ezekiel 3:18-20
18 fIf I say to the wicked, g‘You shall surely die,’ hand you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person ishall die for ▼▼Or in; also verses 19, 20
his iniquity, kbut his blood I will require at your hand. 19 lBut if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, mbut you nwill have delivered your soul. 20 oAgain, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, pand I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. qBecause you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, rand his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, sbut his blood I will require at your hand. Ezekiel 34:10
10Thus says the Lord God, tBehold, I am against the shepherds, and uI will require my sheep at their hand and vput a stop to their feeding the sheep. wNo longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. xI will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.
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