"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.'

"Again you have heard that it was said to the ancients, 'You shall not swear falsely, but you shall pay your oaths to the Lord.'

"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and you shall hate your enemy.'

And she spoke, saying, Of old time they said thus, Surely one was asked in Abel, and Dan, whether the faithful in Israel failed in what they purposed; they will surely ask in Abel, even in like manner, whether they have failed.

For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of our fathers:

shall not these teach you, and report [to you], and bring out words from [their] heart?

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.

You shall not kill.

You shall not commit murder.

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 the cities shall be to you places of refuge from the avenger of blood, and the manslayer shall not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

And if he should strike him with an iron instrument, and the man should die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.

And if he should stike him with an instrument of wood from his hand, whereby he may die, and he [thus] dies, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.

And if he should thrust him, out of hatred, or cast anything upon him from an ambush, and the man should die,

Whoever kills a man, you shall slay the murderer on the testimony of witnesses; and one witness shall not testify against a soul that he should die.

You shall not accept a ransom [to excuse] his fleeing to the city of refuge, so that he should again dwell in the land, until the death of the high priest.

And you shall not defile the land on which you dwell, on which I dwell in the midst of you; for I am the Lord dwelling in the midst of the children of Israel.

and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen [it].

And you shall take away innocent blood from among you, if you should do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord your God.

Moreover you know all that Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two captains of the forces of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, that he killed them, and shed the blood of war in peace [time], and put innocent blood on his belt that was about his loins, and on his sandal that was on his foot.

Therefore you shall deal [with him] according to your wisdom, and you shall not bring down his grey hairs in peace to the grave.

And the king said to him, Go, and do to him as he has spoken, and kill him. And you shall bury him, and you shall remove this day the blood which he shed without cause, from me and from the house of my father.

And the Lord has returned upon his own head the blood of his unrighteousness, inasmuch as he attacked two men more righteous and better than himself, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew not of their blood, [even] Abner the son of Ner the commander-in-chief of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether the commander-in-chief of Judah.