One who beats an animal to death ¹  must make restitution for it, but ²  one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

For ¹  wrath kills the foolish person, ²  and anger ³  slays the silly one.

One who beats an animal to death ¹  must make restitution for it, life for life. ² 

The Lord both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave ¹  and raises up.

The soldiers ¹  told him what had been promised, saying, ²  “This is what will be done for the man who can strike him down.”

Before daybreak ¹  the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is ²  like a thief. ³ 

“‘If a man beats any person to death, ¹  he must be put to death.

They will put you out of ¹  the synagogue, ²  yet a time ³  is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God. ⁴ 

“Blood guilt ¹  will be accounted to any man ²  from the house of Israel ³  who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp, ⁴ 

But the Lord said to him, “All right then, ¹  if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” ²  Then the Lord put a special mark ³  on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down. ⁴ 

These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

“Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony ¹  of witnesses; but one witness cannot ²  testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

Anyone who accidentally kills someone can escape there; ¹  these cities will be a place of asylum from the avenger of blood.

‘Cursed is the one who kills ¹  his neighbor in private.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

What the sluggard desires ¹  will kill him, ²  for his hands ³  refuse to work.

you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.

Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live, ¹  if he has accidentally killed another ²  without hating him at the time of the accident. ³ 

David asked the men who were standing near him, “What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and frees Israel from this humiliation? ¹  For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”

who made us adequate ¹  to be servants of a new covenant ²  not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

and the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the town of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he will not be guilty of blood,