¹ If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;

⁶ You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.

¹² For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹⁷ A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; No one will support him.

²¹ For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

⁴ When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live."