Leviticus 24:17

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Anyone who takes the life of another person must be put to death.

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  • Gen 9:5-6 : 5 I will require an accounting for your lifeblood. I will demand it from any animal and from every person. From each person, I will demand an accounting for the life of another person. 6 Whoever sheds human blood, by humans will their blood be shed; for in the image of God, God made mankind.
  • Deut 19:11-12 : 11 But if someone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, attacks him, and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and then flees to one of these cities, 12 the elders of his city shall send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to be put to death.
  • Deut 27:24 : 24 Cursed is anyone who kills his neighbor secretly. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Exod 21:12-14 : 12 Anyone who strikes a man and kills him shall surely be put to death. 13 But if he did not intend to kill, and it was allowed by God to happen, then I will provide a place where he can flee. 14 However, if someone schemes and acts deliberately to kill his neighbor, you shall take him even from my altar to be put to death.
  • Num 35:30-31 : 30 Anyone who kills another person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses; but no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness. 31 You must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; they must surely be put to death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:12
    89%

    12Anyone who strikes a man and kills him shall surely be put to death.

  • Lev 24:21
    87%

    21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a person must be put to death.

  • Num 35:16-21
    6 verses
    84%

    16But if someone strikes another with an iron object and the person dies, they are a murderer, and the murderer shall be put to death.

    17If someone strikes another with a stone that is large enough to cause death and the person dies, they are a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.

    18Or if someone strikes another with a wooden tool that could cause death, and the person dies, they are a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.

    19The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when they encounter the murderer, the avenger is to put them to death.

    20If someone pushes another out of hatred or throws something at them with intent and the person dies,

    21or if in hostility someone strikes another with their hand and the person dies, the one who struck them must be put to death. They are a murderer. The avenger of blood is to execute the sentence when they meet the murderer.

  • Lev 24:15-16
    2 verses
    84%

    15And speak to the Israelites, saying: If any man curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin.

    16Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death. The entire assembly shall stone him. Whether a foreigner or a native-born, if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.

  • Exod 21:14-18
    5 verses
    83%

    14However, if someone schemes and acts deliberately to kill his neighbor, you shall take him even from my altar to be put to death.

    15Anyone who strikes his father or mother shall surely be put to death.

    16Anyone who kidnaps another person, whether he sells him or the victim is still in his possession, shall surely be put to death.

    17Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death.

    18If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,

  • Num 35:30-31
    2 verses
    82%

    30Anyone who kills another person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses; but no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

    31You must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; they must surely be put to death.

  • Lev 24:18
    80%

    18Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.

  • Lev 20:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

    9Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is upon him.

    10If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.

    11If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

  • Deut 13:9
    78%

    9do not yield to him or listen to him. Show no pity or compassion, and do not shield him.

  • Deut 5:17
    78%

    17You shall not murder.

  • Exod 31:14-15
    2 verses
    78%

    14You shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among their people.

    15For six days, work shall be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

  • Num 15:35
    77%

    35The Lord said to Moses, 'The man must be put to death. The whole assembly is to stone him outside the camp.'

  • Lev 20:13
    77%

    13If a man lies with a male as one lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

  • Gen 9:6
    77%

    6Whoever sheds human blood, by humans will their blood be shed; for in the image of God, God made mankind.

  • Matt 5:21
    77%

    21You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder,’ and whoever murders will be subject to judgment.

  • Exod 20:13
    76%

    13You shall not murder.

  • Deut 17:5-7
    3 verses
    76%

    5take the man or woman who has committed this evil deed out to your city gates and stone that person to death.

    6On the testimony of two or three witnesses, the person will be put to death, but no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

    7The hands of the witnesses must be the first to put the person to death, and then the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from among you.

  • Deut 19:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11But if someone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, attacks him, and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and then flees to one of these cities,

    12the elders of his city shall send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to be put to death.

  • Exod 35:2
    75%

    2Work is to be done for six days, but the seventh day will be holy to you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death.

  • Deut 21:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

    22If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and you hang his body on a tree,

  • Lev 20:27
    75%

    27If a man or a woman has a spirit of divination or is a medium, they must be put to death. They are to be stoned, and their blood is upon them.

  • Lev 20:15
    75%

    15If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must surely be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

  • Num 35:23-24
    2 verses
    74%

    23or if, without seeing them, they drop a stone on someone that could cause death, and the person dies, but there was no enmity or intentional harm between them,

    24then the assembly must judge between the one who caused the death and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

  • Deut 24:7
    74%

    7If someone is caught kidnapping one of their fellow Israelites and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.

  • Exod 21:23
    74%

    23But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life,

  • Prov 28:17
    74%

    17A man burdened with the guilt of bloodshed will flee to the pit; let no one support him.

  • Exod 22:19
    73%

    19Whoever sacrifices to gods other than the Lord must be utterly destroyed.

  • 2 Chr 15:13
    73%

    13Anyone who would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.

  • Exod 21:20
    73%

    20If a man strikes his male or female servant with a rod, and the servant dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

  • Deut 24:16
    73%

    16Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.

  • Deut 17:12
    73%

    12Anyone who acts arrogantly and refuses to listen to the priest who stands to serve the LORD your God or the judge must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.