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Regulations Regarding Murder, Manslaughter, and Various Injuries

12 “‘Whoever strikes someone[a] and he dies will surely be put to death. 13 But if he did not lie in wait and it was an accident,[b] I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. 14 But if a man schemes against his neighbor to kill him by treachery,[c] you will take him from my altar to die.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:12 Literally “A striker of a man”
  2. Exodus 21:13 Literally “and God let him happen to his hand”
  3. Exodus 21:14 Or “with cunning” or “craftily”