Exodus 21:12-14

Christian Standard Bible

Laws about Personal Injury

¹²“Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.^(A) ¹³But 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) ¹⁴If 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)

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Footnotes

21:13 Lit he was not lying in wait
21:14 Or maliciously

1 Kings 2:28

Christian Standard Bible

Joab’s Execution

²⁸The news reached Joab. Since he had supported Adonijah^(A) but not Absalom,^(B) Joab fled to the Lord’s tabernacle and took hold of the horns of the altar.^(C)

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1 Kings 2:28 in all English translations

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