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Exodus 21:14

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If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

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Verse 14. Altar, if he should flee thither for safety. No asylum was allowed to such murderers. Thus Joab was slain by Solomon. 3 Kennicott. 2:31. Menochius.

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