Genesis 9:5

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”

Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”

“ ‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”

Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

“You shall not murder.

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”

he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.

He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”

Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.

He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’ ”

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

“If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds blood, and who does any one of these things,

The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.

For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”

Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.

That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”

I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever;

“You shall not murder.

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbor.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”

“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’

When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.

that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,