Bible: Amos 2:10; 4:10; 8:8-9; 9:5-7

2:10 I brought you up from the land of Egypt;

I led you through the wilderness for forty years

so you could take the Amoritesland as your own.

4:10 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!

8:8 Then Noah 1  sent out a dove 2  to see if the waters had receded 3  from the surface of the ground. 8:9 The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered 4  the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah 5  in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, 6  and brought it back into the ark. 7 

9:5 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 

9:6Whoever sheds human blood, 7 

by other humans 8 

must his blood be shed;

for in God’s image 9 

God 10  has made humankind.”

9:7 But as for you, 11  be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”

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