5 And, besides that, YOUR blood of YOUR souls* shall I ask back. From the hand of every living creature shall I ask it back; and from the hand of man,* from the hand of each one* who is his brother, shall I ask back the soul* of man.+

12 “One who strikes a man so that he actually dies is to be put to death without fail.+

17 “‘And in case a man strikes any soul of mankind fatally,* he should be put to death without fail.+

12 the older men of his city must then send and take him from there, and they must deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood,* and he must die.+