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Genesis 9:5-6 (NIRV)
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5 You can be sure that I will hold someone accountable if you are murdered. I will even hold animals accountable if they kill you. I will also hold anyone accountable who murders another person.
6 "Anyone who murders man
will be killed by man.
That is because I have made man
in my own likeness. This passage relates to the following question(s): (v. 5)
Does the blood-shedder need to die? Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed