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Laws about Personal Injury

12 ‘Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.(A) 13 But 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) 14 If a person schemes and wilfully[b] acts against his neighbour to murder him, you must take him from my altar to be put to death.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 21:13 Lit he was not lying in wait
  2. 21:14 Or maliciously

Joab’s Execution

28 The 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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