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Exodus 21:12

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He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

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  1. Exodus 21:10

    If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

  2. Exodus 21:11

    And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

  3. Exodus 21:13

    And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

  4. Exodus 21:14

    But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.