The meaning is: Since taking another person’s life by any means whatever is murder and exposes the murderer to the penalty of retaliation, if the d…

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But if he thrust him of hatred
Or, "and if" ^F18 , since the Scripture is still speaking of such that shal…

To show plainly the abhorrence of murder, and to provide more effectively for the punishment of the murderer, the nearest relation of the deceased,…