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Exodus 21:14-16
Contemporary English Version
Exodus 21:14-16
Contemporary English Version
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.
16 (A) Death is the punishment for kidnapping. If you sell the person you kidnapped, or if you are caught with that person, the penalty is death.
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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.
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