Anger

21 (A)“You have heard that it was said to those of old, (B)‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable (C)to judgment.’

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17 (A)“‘You shall not murder.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 5:17 The Hebrew word also covers causing human death through carelessness or negligence

13 (A)“You shall not murder.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 20:13 The Hebrew word also covers causing human death through carelessness or negligence

30 “If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the (A)evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. 31 Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death. 32 And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. 33 You shall not (B)pollute the land in which you live, for blood (C)pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except (D)by the blood of the one who shed it. 34 (E)You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, (F)for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”

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Love Your Enemies

43 (A)“You have heard that it was said, (B)‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

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12 (A)“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. 13 (B)But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then (C)I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. 14 But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, (D)you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

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Oaths

33 “Again (A)you have heard that it was said to those of old, (B)‘You shall not swear falsely, but (C)shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’

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And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: (A)from every beast I will require it and (B)from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

(C)“Whoever sheds the blood of man,
    by man shall his blood be shed,
(D)for God made man in his own image.

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Retaliation

38 (A)“You have heard that it was said, (B)‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

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Lust

27 (A)“You have heard that it was said, (B)‘You shall not commit adultery.’

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and they shall testify, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it shed. Accept atonement, O Lord, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and (A)do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.’ So (B)you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.

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16 (A)“But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. 17 And if he struck him down with a stone tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. 18 Or if he struck him down with a wooden tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. 19 (B)The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death. 20 And if he pushed him out of hatred or hurled something at him, (C)lying in wait, so that he died, 21 or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death. He is a murderer. (D)The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

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12 The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

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“For (A)inquire, please, of bygone ages,
    and consider what (B)the fathers have searched out.
For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
    for our days on earth are (C)a shadow.
10 Will they not teach you and tell you
    and utter words out of their understanding?

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“Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah (A)did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, (B)Abner the son of Ner, (C)and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, avenging[a] in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war, and putting the blood of war[b] on the belt around his[c] waist and on the sandals on his feet. Act therefore (D)according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 2:5 Septuagint; Hebrew placing
  2. 1 Kings 2:5 Septuagint innocent blood
  3. 1 Kings 2:5 Septuagint my; twice in this verse

31 The king replied to him, (A)“Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, (B)and thus take away from me and from my father's house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause. 32 The Lord will (C)bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men (D)more righteous and better than himself, (E)Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and (F)Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

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18 Then she said, “They used to say in former times, ‘Let them but ask counsel at (A)Abel,’ and so they settled a matter.

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Justice

18 “You shall appoint (A)judges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

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