From harm and violence he will defend them; ¹  he will value their lives. ² 

If they say, “Come with us! We will ¹  lie in wait ²  to shed blood; ³  we will ambush ⁴  an innocent person ⁵  capriciously. ⁶ 

but these men lie in wait for their own blood, ¹  they ambush their own lives! ² 

“Suppose such a man has ¹  a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things ²  mentioned previously

“‘See how each of the princes of Israel living within you has used his authority to shed blood. ¹ 

You ¹  build Zion through bloody crimes, ²  Jerusalem ³  through unjust violence.

Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Haven’t you committed murder and taken possession of the property of the deceased?”’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “In the spot where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood they will also lick up your blood – yes, yours!”’”

“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with yeast; the sacrifice from the feast of Passover must not remain until the following morning. ¹ 

The avenger ¹  of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.

But God said to me, ‘You must not build a temple to honor me, ¹  for you are a warrior and have spilled blood.’

Indeed every boot that marches and shakes the earth ¹  and every garment dragged through blood is used as fuel for the fire.

Wild oxen will be slaughtered ¹  along with them, as well as strong bulls. ²  Their land is drenched with blood, their soil is covered with fat.

For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words.

מ (Mem) But it happened ¹  due to the sins of her prophets ²  and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.

נ (Nun) They ¹  wander blindly ²  through the streets, defiled by the blood they shed, ³  while no one dares ⁴  to touch their garments.

The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, ¹  before the day of the Lord comes – that great and terrible day!

And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, ¹  we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

so that this generation may be held accountable ¹  for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning ²  of the world, ³ 

The one who eats ¹  my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ² 

This ¹  became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so that in their own language ²  they called that field ³  Hakeldama, that is, “Field of Blood.”)