17 “‘If a man takes a human life,* he should be put to death without fail.+

21 The man who strikes and kills an animal should make compensation for it,+ but the one who strikes and kills a man should be put to death.+

33 “‘You must not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land,+ and there may be no atonement for the blood that has been spilled on the land except by the blood of the one who spilled it.+

21 Now there was a famine+ in the days of David for three consecutive years, so David consulted Jehovah, and Jehovah said: “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibʹe·on·ites to death.”+