whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.Genesis 9:6 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleWhoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood - Hence it appears that whoever kills a man, unless unwittingly, as the Scripture expresses it, shall forfeit his own life.
A man is accused of the crime of murder; of this crime he is guilty or he is not: if he be guilty of murder he should die; if not, let him be punished according to the demerit of his crime; but for no offense but murder should he lose his life. Taking away the life of another is the highest offense that can be committed against the individual, and against society; and the highest punishment that a man can suffer for such a crime is the loss of his own life. As punishment should be ever proportioned to crimes, so the highest punishment due to the highest crime should not be inflicted for a minor offense. The law of God and the eternal dictates of reason say, that if a man kill another, the loss of his own life is at once the highest penalty he can pay, and an equivalent for his offense as far as civil society is concerned. If the death of the murderer be the highest penalty he can pay for the murder he has committed, then the infliction of this punishment for any minor offense is injustice and cruelty; and serves only to confound the claims of justice, the different degrees of moral turpitude and vice, and to render the profligate desperate: hence the adage so frequent among almost every order of delinquents, "It is as good to be hanged for a sheep as a lamb;" which at once marks their desperation, and the injustice of those penal laws which inflict the highest punishment for almost every species of crime. When shall a wise and judicious legislature see the absurdity and injustice of inflicting the punishment of death for stealing a sheep or a horse, forging a twenty shillings' note, and Murdering A Man; when the latter, in its moral turpitude and ruinous consequences, infinitely exceeds the others?* (* On this head the doctor's pious wish has been realized since this paragraph was written. - Publishers)
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Exodus 21:12-14 He that smites a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death...
Exodus 22:2,3 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him...
Leviticus 17:4 And brings it not to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD...
Leviticus 24:17 And he that kills any man shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood...
1 Kings 2:5,6,28-34 Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel...
Matthew 26:52 Then said Jesus to him, Put up again your sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Romans 13:4 For he is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain...
Revelation 13:10 He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword...
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Genesis 1:26,27 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea...
Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Psalm 51:4 Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak...
James 3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
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