Bible Verses About Murder

And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, `Let us go into the field;' and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.

And He saith, `What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground;

and now, cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;

when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee--a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'

And Cain saith unto Jehovah, `Greater is my punishment than to be borne;

lo, Thou hast driven me to-day from off the face of the ground, and from Thy face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been--every one finding me doth slay me.'

And Jehovah saith to him, `Therefore--of any slayer of Cain sevenfold it is required;' and Jehovah setteth to Cain a token that none finding him doth slay him.

And Cain goeth out from before Jehovah, and dwelleth in the land, moving about east of Eden;

`And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I require the life of man;

whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

And Esau hateth Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau saith in his heart, `The days of mourning for my father draw near, and I slay Jacob my brother.'

And they see him from afar, even before he draweth near unto them, and they conspire against him to put him to death.

and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast hath devoured him; and we see what his dreams are.'

and Reuben saith unto them, `Shed no blood; cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and put not forth a hand upon him,' --in order to deliver him out of their hand, to bring him back unto his father.

and Pharaoh layeth a charge on all his people, saying, `Every son who is born--into the River ye do cast him, and every daughter ye do keep alive.'

`Thou dost not murder.

`He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death;

`And when a man doth presume against his neighbour to slay him with subtilty, from Mine altar thou dost take him to die.

if the sun hath risen upon him, blood is for him, he doth certainly repay; if he have nothing, then he hath been sold for his theft;

`And if with an instrument of iron he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

`And if with a stone in the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

`Or with a wooden instrument in the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

`The redeemer of blood himself doth put the murderer to death; in his coming against him he doth put him to death.

`And if in hatred he thrust him through, or hath cast anything at him by lying in wait, and he dieth;

or in enmity he hath smitten him with his hand, and he dieth; the smiter is certainly put to death; he is a murderer; the redeemer of blood doth put the murderer to death in his coming against him.