Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
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Brother
General references
Bible References
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Exodus 21:12
“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.
And at
Genesis 4:9
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Leviticus 19:16
You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor; I am the Lord.
Numbers 35:31
Moreover, you shall not take ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 21:1
“If a slain person is found lying in the open country in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, and it is not known who has struck him,
Psalm 9:12 For He who requires blood remembers them;
He does not forgetthe cry of the afflicted.
He does not forget
Matthew 23:35 so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
Brother
Acts 17:26
and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,
General references
Exodus 20:13
“You shall not murder.