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Genesis 9:5-6
And I will require a penalty for your lifeblood; I will require it from any animal and from any human; if someone murders a fellow human, I will require that person’s life.Whoever sheds human blood, by humans his blood will be shed, for God made humans in his image.
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Deuteronomy 19:11-12
But if someone hates his neighbor, lies in ambush for him, attacks him, and strikes him fatally, and flees to one of these cities,the elders of his city are to send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood and he will die.
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Exodus 21:12-14
“ Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.But if he did not intend any harm, and yet God allowed it to happen, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.If a person schemes and willfully acts against his neighbor to murder him, you must take him from my altar to be put to death.
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Numbers 35:30-31
“ If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death based on the word of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of one witness.You are not to accept a ransom for the life of someone who is guilty of murder; he must be put to death.
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Deuteronomy 27:24
‘ The one who secretly kills his neighbor is cursed.’ And all the people will say,‘ Amen!’