⁵ And I will require a penalty for your lifeblood;^[a] I will require it from any animal^(A) and from any human; if someone murders a fellow human, I will require that person’s life.^(B)

Laws about Personal Injury

¹² ‘Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.^{(A) 13} But if he did not intend any harm,^[a] and yet God allowed it to happen, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.^{(B) 14} If a person schemes and wilfully^[b] acts against his neighbour to murder him, you must take him from my altar to be put to death.^(C)

³⁰ ‘If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death based on the word of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of one witness.^{(A) 31} You are not to accept a ransom for the life of someone who is guilty of murder; he must be put to death.