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"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
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The Sanctity of Human Life
Commentators explain that this law builds upon the 6th Commandment and the earlier covenant with Noah (Genesis 9:6). It establishes the death penalty for intentional murder, reflecting the supreme value God places on human life. Scholars note the severity of this principle, highlighting that even God's altar could not provide refuge for a willful murderer.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The case of murder of a free man and of a slave. See (Exodus 21:20) note. The law was afterward expressly declared to relate also to fo…
19th Century
Anglican
He that smiteth a man, so that he die. —Homicide had been broadly and generally forbidden in the sixth commandment. But s…
16th Century
Protestant
He that strikes a man, so that he dies. This passage, as I have said, more clearly explains the details, and first makes a distinction bet…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He that smites a man, so that he die The Targum of Jonathan is, that smites a man or daughter of Israel with the swo…
God, who by His providence gives and maintains life, by His law protects it. A willful murderer shall be taken even from God's altar. But God provi…
