For this reason, We made it a law for the children of Israel that the killing of a person for reasons other than legal retaliation or for stopping corruption in the land is as great a sin as murdering all of mankind. However, to save a life would be as great a virtue as to save all of mankind. Our Messengers had come to them with clear authoritative evidence but many of them (Israelites) thereafter started doing wrong in the land.
به همين جهت بر فرزندان اسرائيل مقرر داشتيم كه هر كسى ديگرى را جز به انتقام قتل يا فساد در روى زمين بكشد، مانند آن است كه همه مردم را كشته باشد، و هر كه شخصى را از مرگ نجات دهد گويى همه مردم را زنده كرده است. و البته فرستادگان ما حجت‌هاى روشن براى آنه