'And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I require the life of man;

whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

'And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who [is] condemned -- to die, for he is certainly put to death;

'And ye profane not the land which ye [are] in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it;

And all the people of Judah take Uzziah (and he [is] a son of sixteen years), and cause him to reign instead of his father Amaziah.

And the people of the land take Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and cause him to reign instead of his father in Jerusalem.

A son of eight years [is] Josiah in his reigning, and thirty and one years he hath reigned in Jerusalem,