For your lifeblood shall I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I shall require a man's life at the hand of his fellow man.

He that sheds man's blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.

And if any man strike another and he dies, let him be certainly put to death.

And if anyone lie in wait for his neighbor to slay him by craft, and he go for refuge, you shall take him from My altar to put him to death.

And you shall not accept ransoms for life from a murderer who is worthy of death, for he shall be surely put to death.

But if there should be in you a man hating his neighbor, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,

then shall the elders of his city send, and take him from there, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers of blood, and he shall die.