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Deuteronomy 5:17
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Deuteronomy 5:17
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Deuteronomy 21:1
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Deuteronomy 21:1
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Chapter 21
Absolution of Untraced Murder.[a] 1 If the corpse of someone who has been slain is found lying in the open, in the land the Lord, your God, is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed the person,
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- 21:1–9 This law has to do with absolving the community of bloodguilt that accrues to it and to the land when a homicide occurs and the murderer cannot be identified and punished.
Deuteronomy 21:1
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Deuteronomy 21:1
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Atonement for an Unsolved Murder
21 If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who the killer was,(A)
Deuteronomy 21:1
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Deuteronomy 21:1
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21 If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:
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Exodus 20:13
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Exodus 20:13
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- 20:13 Kill: as frequent instances of killing in the context of war or certain crimes (see vv. 12–18) demonstrate in the Old Testament, not all killing comes within the scope of the commandment. For this reason, the Hebrew verb translated here as “kill” is often understood as “murder,” although it is in fact used in the Old Testament at times for unintentional acts of killing (e.g., Dt 4:41; Jos 20:3) and for legally sanctioned killing (Nm 35:30). The term may originally have designated any killing of another Israelite, including acts of manslaughter, for which the victim’s kin could exact vengeance. In the present context, it denotes the killing of one Israelite by another, motivated by hatred or the like (Nm 35:20; cf. Hos 6:9).
Exodus 21:12
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Exodus 21:12
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Personal Injury. 12 [a]Whoever strikes someone a mortal blow must be put to death.(A)
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- 21:12–14 Unintentional homicide is to be punished differently from premeditated, deliberate murder. One who kills unintentionally can seek asylum by grasping the horns of the altar at the local sanctuary. In later Israelite history, when worship was centralized in Jerusalem, cities throughout the realm were designated as places of refuge. Apparently the leaders of the local community were to determine whether or not the homicide was intentional.
Exodus 21:12
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Exodus 21:12
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Personal Injuries
12 “Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.(A)
Exodus 21:12
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Exodus 21:12
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12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
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Numbers 35:20-21
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Numbers 35:20-21
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20 If someone pushes another out of hatred, or throws something from an ambush, and death results,(A) 21 or strikes another with the hand out of enmity and death results, the assailant must be put to death as a murderer. The avenger of blood will kill the murderer on sight.
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Numbers 35:20-21
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Numbers 35:20-21
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20 If anyone with malice aforethought shoves another or throws something at them intentionally(A) so that they die 21 or if out of enmity one person hits another with their fist so that the other dies, that person is to be put to death;(B) that person is a murderer. The avenger of blood(C) shall put the murderer to death when they meet.
Numbers 35:20-21
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Numbers 35:20-21
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20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;
21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
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