Numbers 35:31

World English Bible (2000)

"'Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

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  • Gen 9:5-6 : 5 I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man. 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
  • Exod 21:14 : 14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
  • Deut 19:11-13 : 11 But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities; 12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
  • 2 Sam 12:13 : 13 David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
  • 1 Kgs 2:28-34 : 28 The news came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he didn't turn after Absalom. Joab fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. 29 It was told king Solomon, "Joab has fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and behold, he is by the altar." Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go, fall on him." 30 Benaiah came to the Tent of Yahweh, and said to him, "Thus says the king, 'Come forth!'" He said, "No; but I will die here." Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, "Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me." 31 The king said to him, "Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house. 32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah. 33 So shall their blood return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed forever. But to David, and to his seed, and to his house, and to his throne, there shall be peace forever from Yahweh." 34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
  • Ps 51:14 : 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 35:27-30
    4 verses
    84%

    27 and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

    28 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.

    29 "'These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

    30 "'Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

  • Num 35:32-33
    2 verses
    83%

    32 "'You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

    33 "'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.

  • Lev 24:17
    81%

    17 "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

  • Num 35:16-21
    6 verses
    81%

    16 "'But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    17 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    18 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

    20 If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

    21 or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

  • Exod 21:12
    78%

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

  • Num 35:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11 then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

    12 The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

  • Deut 19:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

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

    13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

  • Lev 24:21
    75%

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

  • Deut 13:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:

    9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

  • Exod 21:14-17
    4 verses
    74%

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

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

    16 "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

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

  • Lev 27:29
    74%

    29 "'No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 5:17
    74%

    17 "You shall not murder.

  • Num 35:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

    25 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

  • Deut 17:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

    7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

  • Lev 20:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

    10 "'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 19:6
    72%

    6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.

  • Exod 35:2
    72%

    2 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.

  • Matt 5:21
    72%

    21 "You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'

  • Deut 27:25
    72%

    25 'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Deut 19:21
    72%

    21 Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Exod 31:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

    15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 21:22
    72%

    22 If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree;

  • Num 15:35
    72%

    35 Yahweh said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp."

  • Exod 22:2
    71%

    2 If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.

  • Deut 19:10
    71%

    10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

  • Exod 20:13
    71%

    13 "You shall not murder.

  • Exod 21:30
    71%

    30 If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

  • Deut 24:16
    71%

    16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

  • Exod 23:7
    71%

    7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

  • Gen 9:6
    71%

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

  • Josh 20:5
    70%

    5 If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn't hate him before.