Exodus 21:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ But if someone willfully attacks and kills another by treachery, you shall take the killer from my altar for execution.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ But if a man comes willfully upon another to slay him craftily, you shall take him from My altar [to which he may have fled for protection], that he may die.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ But if someone plots and kills another person on purpose, you should remove the killer from my altar and put him to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ If someone murders his neighbor with deliberation, by lying in wait, you shall tear him away from my altar, so that he may die.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar, that he may die.

Exodus 21:14 Cross References

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gateway to speak with him privately, and there he stabbed him in the stomach. So he died on account of the blood of Asahel, Joab’s brother.

2 Kings 11:15

Then the priest Jehoiada commanded the captains who were set over the army, “Bring her out between the ranks and kill with the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest said, “Let her not be killed in the house of the Lord.”

Psalm 19:13

Keep back your servant also from the insolent; do not let them have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Exodus 21:15

“Whoever strikes father or mother shall be put to death.

Proverbs 28:17

If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.

Numbers 35:16

“But anyone who strikes another with an iron object, and death ensues, is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 1:43

Although I told you, you would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the Lord and presumptuously went up into the hill country.

Deuteronomy 18:22

If a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord but the thing does not take place or prove true, it is a word that the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; do not be frightened by it.

Deuteronomy 27:24

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who strikes down a neighbor in secret.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Hebrews 10:26

For if we willfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins

2 Peter 2:10

—especially those who indulge their flesh in depraved lust and who despise authority. Bold and willful, they are not afraid to slander the glorious ones,