Leviticus 24:17

New King James Version

‘Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.

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‘Cursed is the one who attacks his neighbor secretly.’ “And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

“You shall not murder.

And whoever kills an animal shall restore it; but whoever kills a man shall be put to death.

‘But if he strikes him with an iron implement, so that he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

‘You shall not murder.

So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

So they seized her; and she went by way of the horses’ entrance into the king’s house, and there she was killed.