Gen 9:5-6, Exo 21:12-14, Num 35:31, Deu 19:11-12 | ESV | STEP | And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning : from every beast I will require it and from man . From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man .

Genesis 9:5-6

5 And 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. 14 But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, ^hyou shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

Numbers 35:31

31 Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 19:11-12

11 “But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him ⁱand strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities, 12 then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.