Numbers Chapter 35 verse 31 Holy Bible
Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
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Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death.
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And ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall certainly be put to death.
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Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
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Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
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Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
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`And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who `is' condemned -- to die, for he is certainly put to death;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 31. - Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer. The passion for vengeance is both bad and good, and is therefore to be carefully purified and restrained; but when the desire for vengeance can be appeased by a money payment, it has become wholly bad, and is only a despicable form of covetousness which insults the justice it pretends to invoke. Such payments or "ransoms" are permitted by the Koran, and have been common among most semi-civilized peoples, notably amongst our old English ancestors.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(31, 32) Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer . . . --The Israelites were not allowed to make terms with the relatives of the man who had been slain, as is not unfrequently the case at the present time; nor were they permitted to allow the man who had slain any one unintentionally to return home from the city of refuge before the death of the high priest, on the payment of a sum of money by way of compensation.
