The Law Concerning Violence

12 (A)“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death. 13 However, (B)if he did not lie in wait, but God (C)delivered him into his hand, then (D)I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

14 “But if a man acts with (E)premeditation against his neighbor, to kill him by treachery, (F)you shall take him from My altar, that he may die.

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33 So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood (A)defiles the land, and no [a]atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except (B)by the blood of him who shed it.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 35:33 Lit. covering

52 But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, (A)for all who take the sword will [a]perish by the sword.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 26:52 M die

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