Esau said, "All right! I am about to die; what good will my rights do me?"

"What will you gain from my death? What profit from my going to the grave? Are dead people able to praise you? Can they proclaim your unfailing goodness?

But there were ten men in the group who said to Ishmael, "Please don't kill us! We have wheat, barley, olive oil, and honey hidden in the fields." So he spared them.

Will you gain anything if you win the whole world but lose your life? Of course not! There is nothing you can give to regain your life.

What did you gain from doing the things that you are now ashamed of ? The result of those things is death!

Come on now, let's kill him and throw his body into one of the dry wells. We can say that a wild animal killed him. Then we will see what becomes of his dreams."

Then the LORD said, "Why have you done this terrible thing? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground, like a voice calling for revenge.

"It may be that some cases will be too difficult for the local judges to decide, such as certain cases of property rights or of bodily injury or those cases that involve a distinction between murder and manslaughter. When this happens, go to the one place of worship chosen by the LORD your God,

and David said to the Amalekite, "You brought this on yourself. You condemned yourself when you confessed that you killed the one whom the LORD chose to be king."

O Earth, don't hide the wrongs done to me! Don't let my call for justice be silenced!

There was murder in the city, but the blood was not spilled on the ground where the dust could hide it; it was spilled on a bare rock.