And Ruben aunswered them, saying: sayd I not vnto you, that you shoulde not sinne against the lad, and ye would not heare? and see, nowe his blood is required.
TSK
TSK · Genesis 9:5
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge references in Bishops.
He that smyteth a man, that he dye, shalbe slayne for it.
Thou shalt not go vp and downe with tales among thy people, neither shalt thou stande agaynst the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lorde.
And he that kylleth a beast, let hym restore it: and he that kylleth a man, let hym dye.
If he smyte hym with throwyng a stone, that a man may dye with, and if he dye, he that smote hym is a murtherer: let the same murtherer be slayne therefore.
Or smyte hym with his hande of enmitie that he dye: he that smote hym shall dye the death, for he is a murtherer: the reuenger of the blood shall slay the murtherer when he meeteth hym.
But and if any man hate his neyghbour, and lay awayte for hym, and ryse agaynst hym, and smyte hym that he die, & then fleeth vnto any of these cities:
If one be founde slayne in the lande which the Lord thy God geueth thee to possesse it, and lyeth in the fielde, and it is not knowen who hath slayne hym:
Deale with him therefore according to thy wisdome, and bring not his hoore head downe to the graue in peace.
And his owne seruauntes conspired against him, and slue him in his owne house.
For he maketh inquisition of blood: he remembreth it, and forgetteth not the complaynt of the poore.
And hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all ye face of the earth, & hath determined the tymes before appoynted, and also the boundes of their habitation: