Thou Shalt Not Kill

`Thou dost not murder.

`Thou dost not murder.

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment;

for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

`And God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law;

the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Thou mayest not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.'

He saith to him, `What kind?' And Jesus said, `Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness,

the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.'

`And when a man smiteth any soul of man, he is certainly put to death.

whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment; — read the full passage →

`And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I require the life of man; — read the full passage →

Every one who is hating his brother--a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

`If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he hath been smitten, and hath died, there is no blood for him;

but I--I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.

In the third month of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in this day they have come into the wilderness of Sinai, — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not commit adultery.

`And when a man doth presume against his neighbour to slay him with subtilty, from Mine altar thou dost take him to die.

And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, <FI>`Let us go into the field;'<Fi> and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him. — read the full passage →

`And when a man smiteth his man-servant or his handmaid, with a rod, and he hath died under his hand--he is certainly avenged;

And Lamech saith to his wives: --`Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Wives of Lamech, give ear <FI>to<Fi> my saying: For a man I have slain for my wound, Even a young man for my hurt;

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

as to him who hath not laid wait, and God hath brought to his hand, I have even set for thee a place whither he doth flee.

`And he who smiteth a beast repayeth it, and he who smiteth <FI>the life of<Fi> man is put to death;

from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.

`And these <FI>are<Fi> the judgments which thou dost set before them: — read the full passage →

`He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death; — read the full passage →

`He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death;

`And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife--who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour--the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.

having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers,

For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her slain!'

`If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he hath been smitten, and hath died, there is no blood for him; — read the full passage →

`And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I require the life of man;

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →

for the judgment without kindness <FI>is<Fi> to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, <FI>`Let us go into the field;'<Fi> and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled, — read the full passage →

I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants. — read the full passage →

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment; — read the full passage →

`When thou goest out to battle against thine enemy, and hast seen horse and chariot--a people more numerous than thou--thou art not afraid of them, for Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> with thee, who is bringing thee up out of the land of Egypt; — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not desire the house of thy neighbour, thou dost not desire the wife of thy neighbour, or his man-servant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which <FI>is<Fi> thy neighbour's.'

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

And Jesus having been born in Beth-Lehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, lo, mages from the east came to Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, `Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;'

Only, know ye certainly, that if ye are putting me to death, surely innocent blood ye are putting on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly hath Jehovah sent me unto you to speak in your ears all these words.'

And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly, — read the full passage →

`And when a man is hating his neighbour, and hath lain in wait for him, and risen against him, and smitten him--the life, and he hath died, and he hath fled unto one of these cities, — read the full passage →

`And if with an instrument of iron he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he <FI>is<Fi> a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death. — read the full passage →

`I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What--to us? thou shalt see!'

`And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.

for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

`Thou hast no other Gods before Me.

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →

`And God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not commit adultery.

`Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy; — read the full passage →

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →

And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, `Hear, Israel, the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking in your ears to-day, and ye have learned them, and have observed to do them. — read the full passage →

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

that the fellowship of thy faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that <FI>is<Fi> in you toward Christ Jesus;

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil. — read the full passage →

Belshazzar the king hath made a great feast to a thousand of his great men, and before the thousand he is drinking wine; — read the full passage →

`And God speaketh all these words, saying,

And at dawn he came again to the temple, — read the full passage →

Bend yourselves, yea, bend ye, O nation not desired, — read the full passage →

`And when a person doth sin, and hath heard the voice of an oath, and he <FI>is<Fi> witness, or hath seen, or hath known--if he declare not, then he hath borne his iniquity: — read the full passage →

And he heareth the words of Laban's sons, saying, `Jacob hath taken all that our father hath; yea, from that which our father hath, he hath made all this honour;' — read the full passage →

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

And they shed innocent blood--Blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, And the land is profaned with blood.

for the fleeing thither of the man-slayer, who slayeth his neighbour unknowingly, and he is not hating him heretofore, and he hath fled unto one of these cities, and he hath lived:

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him,

`Thou dost not desire thy neighbour's wife; nor dost thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, and his man-servant, and his handmaid, his ox, and his ass, and anything which <FI>is<Fi> thy neighbour's.

And Peter said unto her, `How was it agreed by you, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? lo, the feet of those who did bury thy husband <FI>are<Fi> at the door, and they shall carry thee forth;'

And Saul saith, `Blessed <FI>are<Fi> ye of Jehovah, for ye have pity on me;

I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants.

For the Izharite: Shelomoth; for sons of Shelomoth: Jahath.

and Ahab speaketh unto Naboth, saying, `Give to me thy vineyard, and it is to me for a garden of green herbs, for it <FI>is<Fi> near by my house, and I give to thee in its stead a better vineyard than it; if good in thine eyes, I give to thee silver--its price.'

and they forget Jehovah their God, and He selleth them into the hand of Sisera, head of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fight against them, — read the full passage →

and now, lo, the king is walking habitually before you, and I have become aged and gray-headed, and my sons, lo, they <FI>are<Fi> with you, and I have walked habitually before you from my youth till this day.

And Abraham saith, `Because I said, `Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe? — read the full passage →

They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'

And it cometh to pass, at Ahab's hearing that Naboth is dead, that Ahab riseth to go down unto the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to possess it.

three cities thou dost separate for thee in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it.

hath not he himself said to me, She <FI>is<Fi> my sister! and she, even she herself, said, He <FI>is<Fi> my brother; in the integrity of my heart, and in the innocency of my hands, I have done this.'