Laws about Personal Injury

¹² “Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.^{(A) 13} But if he did not intend any harm,^[a] and yet God allowed it to happen, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.^{(B) 14} If a person schemes and willfully^[b] acts against his neighbor to murder him, you must take him from my altar to be put to death.^(C)

⁵⁰ Adonijah was afraid of Solomon, so he got up and went to take hold of the horns of the altar.^(A)