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Exodus 21:13-15
Contemporary English Version
Exodus 21:13-15
Contemporary English Version
13 (A) But if you did not intend to kill someone, and I, the Lord, let it happen anyway, you may run for safety to a place that I have set aside. 14 If you plan in advance to murder someone, there's no escape, not even by holding on to my altar.[a] You will be dragged off and killed.
15 Death is the punishment for attacking your father or mother.
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- 21.14 altar: As a rule, anyone who ran to the altar was safe from the death penalty, until proven guilty.
Exodus 21:13-15
New International Version
Exodus 21:13-15
New International Version
13 However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place(A) I will designate. 14 But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately,(B) that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.(C)
15 “Anyone who attacks[a] their father or mother is to be put to death.
Footnotes
- Exodus 21:15 Or kills
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