hSee 1 Kgs. 2:28-34
Genesis 9:5-6
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.6 c“Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
dfor God made man in his own image.
Exodus 21:12-14
12 e“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. 13 fBut if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then gI will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. 14But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, hyou shall take him from my altar, that he may die.Leviticus 24:17
An Eye for an Eye
17 i“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.Numbers 35:30-33
30“If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the jevidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. 31Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death. 32And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. 33You shall not kpollute the land in which you live, for blood lpollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except mby the blood of the one who shed it.
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