¹ If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death:

⁶ You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.

¹² When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.

¹⁷ One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

²¹ For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.

⁴ And when the people saw it hanging on his hand, they said to one another, Without doubt this man has put someone to death, and though he has got safely away from the sea, God will not let him go on living.