OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 21:15

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15

“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

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Verse 15. Striketh, even though death should not ensue. But some require a grevious wound, and that the son should be twice admonished. Deuteronomy 21:18. Parricide seemed a crime so shocking and unnatural, that neither Moses nor Solon made any express law against it.

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