“Whoever sheds human blood, ¹  by other humans ²  must his blood be shed; for in God’s image ³  God ⁴  has made humankind.”

But ¹  you must not eat meat ²  with its life (that is, ³  its blood) in it. ⁴ 

But the Lord said, “What have you done? ¹  The voice ²  of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a young goat, ¹  and dipped the tunic in the blood.

So now, you are banished ¹  from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

For your lifeblood ¹  I will surely exact punishment, ²  from ³  every living creature I will exact punishment. From each person ⁴  I will exact punishment for the life of the individual ⁵  since the man was his relative. ⁶ 

Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

Reuben said to them, “Didn’t I say to you, ‘Don’t sin against the boy,’ but you wouldn’t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!” ¹ 

Binding his foal to the vine, and his colt to the choicest vine, he will wash ¹  his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

Reuben continued, ¹  “Don’t shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” ²  (Reuben said this ³  so he could rescue Joseph ⁴  from them ⁵  and take him back to his father.)