Surely the blood of your souls will I require; at the hand of every living thing will I require it, and at the hand of man. At the hand of every man's brother I will require the soul of man.

Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man.

He who strikes a man so that he dies shall be executed to death.

But if a man comes presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him by deceit, you shall take him even from My altar, that he may die.

Moreover you shall take no ransom for the soul of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall be executed to death.

But if anyone, while hating his neighbor, has laid in wait for him, risen against him and struck his soul so that he has died, and he has fled to one of these cities,

then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and deliver him over to the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.